| Description |
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
List of contributors -- General background -- 1. Motion blindness / C.A. Heywood and J. Zihl -- 2. Cerebral achromatopsia / C.A. Heywood and A. Cowey -- 3. Integrative agnosia / Glyn W. Humphreys -- 4. Apperceptive agnosia: a deficit of perceptual categorisation of objects / Jules Davidoff & Elizabeth K. Warrington -- 5. Vision and visual mental imagery / Marlene Behrmann, Morris Moscovitch and Gordon Winocur -- 6. Category-specific recognition impairments for living and nonliving things / Emer M.E. Forde -- 7. Optic aphasia: a review of some classic cases / M. Jane Riddoch -- 8. Covert recognition and anosognosia in prosopagnosic patients / Edward H.F. De Haan -- 9. Relations among the agnosias / Martha J. Farah -- Author index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
"One important means to understanding normal cognitive functions is the study of the breakdown of these functions following brain damage. Within the field of vision, case studies of patients with selective deficits have helped develop our understanding of how basic properties of images are processed (colour, motion), how such properties are integrated in perception, and how perceptual processes relate to recognition and imagery. This book provides reviews of major case studies dealing with the breakdown of visual perception and recognition, with the case studies being discussed in the light of studies that have followed since. The chapters provide a context in which the contributions of the case studies can be evaluated. The case studies include the disorders: motion vision, colour vision, perceptual integration, perceptual classification, recognition of particular categories of object, semantic access from vision (in optic aphasia), and recognition impairments with relative sparing of imagery."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Visual perception.
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Color blindness.
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Vision disorders.
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Neuropsychology.
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Visual agnosia.
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Visual perception -- Case studies.
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Visual perception -- Case studies.
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Visual agnosia -- Case studies.
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Neuropsychology -- Case studies.
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Agnosia.
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Visual Perception.
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Neuropsychology.
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Vision Disorders.
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| Genre/Form |
Case Report
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Case studies.
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| Author |
Humphreys, Glyn W.
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| ISBN |
086377895X |
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0863778968 paperback |
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