Ways of seeing
Subtitle: the scope and limits of visual cognition
By: Pierre Jacob and Marc Jeannerod.
Contributors: Jeannerod, Marc.
Series: Oxford cognitive science series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Visual perception.; Cognitive neuroscience.; Perceptual-motor processes.
Description: "Ways of seeing is a book about human vision. It results from the collaboration between a philosopher and a cognitive neuroscience has made many startling discoveries about the human brain, and about the human visual system in particular. This book brings many recent empirical findings, from electrophysiological recordings in animals, the neuropsychological examination of human patients, psychophysics, and developmental cognitive psychology, to bear on questions traditionally addressed by philosophers: what is the meaning of the English verb 'to see'? How does visual experience yield knowledge of the world? How does visual perception relate to thought? What is the role of conscious visual awareness in visually guided actions? How does seeing actions relate to seeing objects? In the process, the book provides a new assessment of the 'two visual systems' hypothesis, according to which the human visual system comprises two anatomical pathways with separable visual functions. This book about human vision will be of interest to students and researchers in many areas of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what is human visual cognition?; title: The representational theory of the visual mind; title: Multiple pathways in the primate visual system; title: Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients; title: The varieties of normal human visual processing; title: Visual perception; title: Visuomotor representations; title: Seeing humans act; title: Epilogue : the two visual systems revisited.