Ways of Seeing: The scope and limits of visual cognition
Author:   Pierre Jacob (, Researcher at CNRS, Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France) ,  Marc Jeannerod (, Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198509219


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   02 October 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Ways of seeing is a book about human vision. It results from the collaboration between a world famous cognitive neuroscientist and an eminent philosopher. In the past forty years, 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 perception yield knowledge of the world? How does visual perception relate to thought? What is the role of conscious visual experience 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. The first truly interdisciplinary book about human vision, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many areas of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

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Author:   Pierre Jacob (, Researcher at CNRS, Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France) ,  Marc Jeannerod (, Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.447kg
ISBN:  

9780198509219


ISBN 10:   0198509219
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   02 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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... another fine book from the Oxford Cognitive Science Series ... this is an excellent book! Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 11, No 5-6


. . . another fine book from the Oxford Cognitive Science Series . . . this is an excellent book! * Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 11, No 5-6 *


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