Sight unseen / Mel Goodale and David Milner
- Author:
- Goodale, Melvyn A.
- Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition:
- [2nd edition].
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Additional Creators:
- Milner, A. D. (A. David)
- Access Online:
- ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.A Tragic Accident -- II.Doing Without Seeing -- III.When Vision For Action Fails -- IV.The Origins Of Vision: From Modules To Models -- V.Streams Within Streams -- VI.The Anatomy Of Conscious And Unconscious Vision -- VII.Why Do We Need Two Systems? -- VIII.How Do The Two Systems Work? -- IX.Getting It All Together -- X.Postscript: Dee's Life Twenty-Five Years On.
- Summary:
- Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. This text describes one of the most extraordinary neurological cases in recent years. It is the story of Dee Fletcher - a woman recently blinded. As events unfolded, Milner and Goodale found that Dee wasn't blind - she just didn't know that she could see.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780191753008 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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