The Neuropsychology of Vision

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-850582-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

The Neuropsychology of Vision describes a range of new approaches to neuropsychological investigation and provides a broad overview of visual neuropsychology. The book starts by presenting the results from new research employing single-unit recordings, on the neuronal basis of perception demonstrating that the visual system relies strongly on feedback from higher to lower levels of information processing, and that neuronal plasticity exists in the primary sensory cortices of adults, areas previously considered to be hard-wired. The book also describes other new and adapted techniques to measure brain activity, including multi-unit sum potential recording, functional magnetic resonance imaging and employing transcranial magnetic stimulation to induce temporary, circumscribed functional lesions in the cortices of normal subjects to mimic disorders.

The coverage then moves on to review the experience of patients suffering from disturbances of visual perception. The disorders covered include agnosia, neglect, blindsight and achromatopsia. The final chapter is devoted to recovery and rehabilitation from cerebral visual disorder.

Professors Fahle and Greenlee have brought together some of the leading international specialists in the field to provide this comprehensive and up-to-date review.

Zielgruppe

Neuropsychologists, neuroscientists, vision researchers and neurologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahle, Manfred

Greenlee, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Augenheilkunde, Optometrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Physiology and anatomy of the visual system: single cells

- 1: Rainer and Logothetis: Vision, behaviour and the single neuron

- 2: Bullier: Cortical connections and functional interactions between visual cortical areas

- Part II: Sum-potentials in humans: electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography

- 3: Munte and Heinze: Electro- and magneto-encephalographic and event-related potential studies of visual processing in normals and neurological patients

- Part III: Imaging studies: functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography

- 4: Greenlee: Functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography studies of motion perception, eye movements and reading

- Part IV: Lesion studies in trained monkeys and humans (transcranial magnetic stimulation)

- 5: Merigan and Pasternak: Lesions in primate visual cortex leading to deficits of visual perception

- 6: Ellison et al: Magnetic stimulation in studies of vision and attention

- Part V: Psychophysics: patient studies

- 7: Fahle: Failures of visual analysis: scotoma, agnosia and neglect

- 8: Heywood and Cowey: Colour vision and its disturbances after cortical lesions

- 9: Weiskrantz: Unconscious perception: blindsight

- 10: Farah: Perception, memory and agnosia

- Part VI: Rehabilitation and recovery

- 11: Zihl: Recovery and rehabilitation of cerebral visual disorders

Über Autor(innen)

Manfred Fahle, Director, Institute of Brain Research, University of Bremen, Germany, and Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, London, UK, and Mark Greenlee, Department of Psychology, University of Oldenburg, Germany