The Roots of Visual Awareness (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Heywood, C. A.; Blakemore, C.; Milner, A. D.

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Produktbeschreibung

The present volume was assembled in honor of Professor Alan Cowey FRS, and attempts to embrace his wide range of research interests in visual neuroscience. It is divided into four sections.

The first contains a group of papers dealing with different fundamental aspects of the visual system, including the control and monitoring of eye movements. The second is concerned with the functional organization of cortical visual areas and their role in visual perception and visually guided action. The third addresses issues concerning color and motion perception, along with broader questions of visual attention; and the effects of selective brain damage on these different aspects of visual experience. The fourth and final section of the volume deals explicitly with questions relating to visual awareness, with particular emphasis on 'blindsight', a topic on which Alan Cowey has worked extensively in recent years, both in humans and in monkeys.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080498102
• Artikelnr.: 38119101

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors. Foreword (R.L. Gregory). Preface. I. Visual Pathways.
1. Developmental plasticity of photoreceptors (B.E. Reese). 2. Morphology
and physiology of primate M- and P- cells (L.C.L. Silveira, C.A. Saito et
al.). 3. Identifying corollary discharges for movement in the primate brain
(R.H. Wurtz, M.A. Sommer). 4. Visual awareness and the cerebellum: possible
role of decorrelation control (P. Dean, J. Porrill, J.V. Stone). II.
Cortical visual systems. 5. Some effects of cortical and callosal damage on
conscious and unconscious processing of visual information and other
sensory inputs (G. Berlucchi). 6. Consciousness absent and present: a
neurophysiological exploration (E.T. Rolls). 7. Rapid serial visual
presentation for the determination of neural selectivity in area STSa (P.
Földiák, D. Xiao et al). 8. Cortical interactions in vision and awareness:
hierarchies in reverse (C.-H. Juan, G. Campana, V. Walsh). 9. Two distinct
modes of control for object-directed action (M.A. Goodale, D.A. Westwood,
A.D. Milner). III. Perception and attention. 10. Color contrast: a
contributory mechanism to color constancy
(A. Hurlbert, K. Wolf). 11. The primacy of chromatic edge processing in
normal and cerebrally achromatopsic subjects
(R.W. Kentridge, G.G. Cole, C.A. Heywood). 12. Neuroimaging studies of
attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuli
(L. Pessoa, L.G. Ungerleider). 13. Selective visual attention, visual
search and visual awareness (C.M. Butter). 14. First-order and second-order
motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems (L.M.
Vaina, S. Soloviev).
15. Reaching between obstacles in spatial neglect and visual extinction
(A.D. Milner, R.D. McIntosh). IV. Blindsight and visual awareness. 16.
Roots of blindsight (L. Weiskrantz). 17. "Double-blindsight" revealed
through the processing of color and luminance contrast defined motion
signals (J.L. Barbur). 18. Stimulus cueing in blindsight (A. Cowey, P.
Stoerig). 19. Visually-guided behavior after V1 lesions in young and adult
monkeys and its relation to blindsight in humans (C.G. Gross, T. Moore,
H.R. Rodman). 20. Is blindsight in normals akin to blindsight following
brain damage? (C.A. Marzi, A. Minelli, S. Savazzi). 21. Auras and other
hallucinations: windows on the visual brain (F. Wilkinson). 22. Theories of
visual awareness
(A. Zeman). Subject Index.