Melvyn Goodale, David Milner

Sight Unseen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this updated and extended edition of their book, Goodale and Milner explore one of the most extraordinary neurological cases of recent years¿one that profoundly changed scientific views on the visual brain. Taking us on a journey into the unconscious brain, this book is a fascinating illustration of the power of the 'unconscious' mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199596966
• ISBN-10: 0199596964
• Artikelnr.: 47866025

Autorenporträt

Melvyn Goodale, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, Canada, David Milner, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1: A tragic accident
2: Doing without seeing
3: When vision for action fails
4: The origins of vision: from modules to models
5: Streams within streams
6: The anatomy of conscious and unconscious vision
7: Why do we need two systems?
8: How do the two systems work?
9: Getting it all together
10: Postscript: Dee's life twenty-five years on