An eminent philosopher and a world famous neuroscientist collaborate on the question of what it really means to see. A truly interdisciplinary book, it blends neurophysiology, electrophysiological studies, cognitive psychology, psychophysics, and the philosophy of mind, to create a valuable contribution to the field of cognitive science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction: What is human visual cognition
- Part I: The Purposes of Vision: Perceiving, Thinking and Acting
- 1: The representational theory of the visual mind
- Part II: Empirical Evidence for the Duality of Visual Processing
- 2: Multiple pathways in the primate visual system
- 3: Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients
- 4: The varieties of normal human visual processing
- Part III: Perceiving objects and grasping them
- 5: Visual perception
- 6: Visuomotor representations
- Part IV: The perception of action
- 7: Seeing humans act
- Epilogue: The two visual systems revisited
