Sight Unseen

An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-851052-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm

From reviews of the hardback edition:

'. a rewarding book. The approach is refreshingly humane.' -Times Literary Supplement

'Given the authors' clear and precise language and their stated aim to write an accessible book (which they achieve), this volume is a perfect Christmas present for anyone even remotely interested in the brain. Sight Unseen is not just a book for readers of popular science, demonstrating how much can be learned about brain function from patient studies; even specialists in neuroscience and neuropsychology could learn something. The book illustrates the enormous amount of knowledge to be gained from analysing deficits of specific stroke patients. It closes by stating: "Studying the way the brain reorganizes itself in response to severe damage presents one of the most important challenges to neuroscience in the twenty-first century." How true.' -Nature, Vol 429

'Goodale and Milner's book is a detailed but non-tech survey of the state of the art. There's more going on than you think, and they do an excellent job of explaining it.' -Focus (Science and Technology)

'Sight Unseen' is an intriguing and important book, stemming as it does from beautifully observed clinical detail combined with a range of ingenious experiments. Melvyn Goodale and David Milner present a persuasive and original argument for the essential doubleness of our visual system, in writing that is vivid and often delightful. It is a valuable and fundamental contribution to our understanding of visual processing.' -Oliver Sacks, M D

'A rare combination of humanity and important, seminal neuroscience - masterfully accessible.' -Lawrence Weiskrantz FRS, University of Oxford

'This follow-up to the authors' influential 'Visual Brain in Action' will make their important work on the 'two visual systems' more widely accessible, as it clearly deserves to be. It presents the empirical case for their seminal theory in a delightfully readable manner, treating the evolutionary basis for the dual-stream organization of the visual system, and discussing its far-reaching implications for understanding conscious and unconscious visual perception. Even those who do not agree with their entire comprehensive story will be impressed by the breadth of the case that they make for the claim that vision for action is a different, and perhaps a more primitive system of the brain than the one that gives us our conscious experience of seeing.' -Zenon Pylyshyn, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science

'Sight Unseen' is one of the most fascinating and engaging accounts of visual experience that I have ever read. Goodale and Milner's scientific work over the last decade has caused a revolution in perceptual neuroscience. This book explains many of the details of this revolution in a way that is accessible to interested laypeople and will be of interest to specialists as well. It also shows the warm humanity that lies at the base of every successful doctor-patient relationship. Whether you are a neuroscientist, a philosopher, a poet, a journalist, or just someone who thinks about experiences instead of merely having them, this is a book that you must read.' -Sean Kelly, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

'Sight Unseen' is. a rewarding book. The approach is refreshingly humane. There is much. information of interest in 'Sight Unseen'.' -Times Literary Supplement

A fascinating exploration of the 'unconscious' mind

Written by the scientists who made these groundbreaking discoveries

Accessible to students and popular science readers

Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is so rich and 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 an exclusively conscious activity - we direct our eyes, we choos

Zielgruppe

Psychologists, neuroscientists, and popular science readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodale, Mel

Milner, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Melvyn A. Goodale, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience, Director, CIHR Group on Action and Perception, University of Western Ontario, Canada and A. David Milner, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director, MRC Cooperative Group on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Processing, University of Durham, UK