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Sight Unseen
Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but 'imagine' what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being a conscious activity--we direct our eyes, we choose what we look at, we register what we are seeing. The series of events described in this book radically altered this attitude towards vision. This book describes one of the most extraordinary neurological cases of recent years--one that profoundly changed scientific views on consciousness. It is the story of Dee Fl...
Sight Unseen
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.
The Visual Brain in Action
Although the mechanics of how the eye works are well understood, debate still exists as to how the complex machinery of the brain interprets neural impulses supplied by the eye. In order to understand the evolution of the visual system, the authors of this work outline the function of vision.
The Visual Brain in Action
First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying perception and action, proposing a broad distinction within the brain between two kinds of vision: conscious perception and unconscious 'online' vision. It argues that each kind of vision can occur quasi-independently of the other, and is separately handled by a quite different processing system. In the 11 years since publication, the book has provoked considerable interest and debate - throughout both cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, while the field has continued to flourish and develop. For this new edition...
The Psychology of Cognition
This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exciting and influential theoretical approaches such as embodied cognition and predictive coding, and explaining new topics such as motor cognition, cognitive control, consciousness, and social cognition. Durk Talsma offers foundational knowledge which he expands and enhances with coverage of complex topics, explaining their interrelatedness and presenting them together with classic experiments and approaches in a historic context. Providing broad coverage of world-class international research this richly illustrated textbook covers key topics includ...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
This title is a collection of interdisciplinary research from contributors including both philosophers and neuroscientists. Topics covered include the neurobiology of learning and memory perception and sensation, neurocomputational modelling neuroanatomy, neuroethics, and neurology and clinical neuropsychology.
Interference in Skilled and Unskilled Grasping
Neuropsychologische Befunde legen eine Trennung des visuellen Informationsverarbeitungssystems von Primaten in zwei kortikale Pfade nahe: Ein ventraler Pfad zur (bewussten) Wahrnehmung, und ein dorsaler Pfad zur Planung und Uberwachung motorischer Handlungen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden zwei Aspekte eingehender untersucht: (1) Verarbeitung im dorsalen Pfad soll automatisch ablaufen, und (2) ungeubte sowie linkshandige (Greif-)Bewegungen sollen vom ventralen Pfad gesteuert werden. Dazu werden sieben Experimente berichtet, die verschiedene Greifbewegungen (zumeist) im Kontext von Doppelaufgaben untersuchen. Konsistent zeigten sich dabei zwei Befunde. Erstens waren alle Greifbewegungen anfallig fur eine parallel auszufuhrende Zweitaufgabe. Zweitens lassen sich fur ungeubte und linkshandige Greifbewegungen keine Hinweise fur eine Beteiligung des ventralen Pfades erkennen. Diese Befunde legen den Schluss nahe, dass alle Greifbewegungen durch den selben Mechanismus gesteuert werden (vermutlich durch den dorsale Pfad), und dass dieser Mechanismus Kapazitatslimitierungen unterliegt - also nicht als streng automatisch konzeptualisiert werden kann.
Vision and Action
This text provides a comprehensive survey of work in visually guided prehension developmental studies of accurate grasping in human infants, and neuropsychological work on praxic control in individuals with brain damage. It examines the following topics: electrohysiological studies of motor and premotor areas in the cerebral cortex, kinematic studies of prehension in normal and neurologically-impaired individuals, and elevtomyographic studies of muscles controlling grasping.
Open Minded
A provocative look at the unconscious mind that challenges contemporary perceptions and exposes the indefensible science that fostered them. How much of a role does the unconscious play in our decision making? In Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind, authors Ben R. Newell and David R. Shanks would argue: not very much. Behavioral science and public discourse have placed an outsized emphasis on the unconscious mind when it comes to understanding human behavior. Pursuing trails of fraud, intrigue, and claims about the power of unconscious thought, Newell and Shanks scrutinize the science that has contributed to our conventional wisdom and offer an important counterpoint ...
The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy
The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the most important figures in Continental philosophy in the last 200 years. Presents a definitive introduction to the core figures and topics of continental philosophy. Contains newly commissioned essays, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars. Provides a solid foundation for further study. Subjects include Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, Husserl and Phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, critical theory, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.
