Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious VisionVision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but 'imagine' what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being a conscious activity--we direct our eyes, we choose what we look at, we register what we are seeing. The series of events described in this book radically altered this attitude towards vision. This book describes one of the most extraordinary neurological cases of recent years--one that profoundly changed scientific views on consciousness. It is the story of Dee Fletcher--a woman recently blinded--who became the subject of a series of scientific studies. As events unfolded, Milner and |
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Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Doing without seeing | 17 |
When vision for action fails | 31 |
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| Title | Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision |
| Authors | Melvyn A. Goodale, A. David Milner |
| Editors | Melvyn A. Goodale, A. David Milner |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 4, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0198510527, 9780198510529 |
| Length | 135 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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