Blindsight

a case study spanning 35 years and new developments
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956721-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Blindsight is an unusual condition where the sufferer can respond to visual stimuli, while lacking any conscious feeling of having seen the stimuli. It occurs after a particular form of brain injury.
The first edition of 'Blindsight', by one of the pioneers in the field - Lawrence Weiskrantz, reported studies of a patient with this condition. It was an important, much cited publication. In the past twenty years, further work has been done in this area, and this new edition brings the book up to date. Retaining the original text, but adding substantial new chapters and colour illustrations, the first section of the book summarizes findings on DB since the last published account in 1986. The second part includes information on other new research that has occurred since the last edition. As well as giving an account of research over a number of years into a particular case of blindsight, it provides a discussion of the historical and neurological background, a review of cases reported by other investigators, and a number of theoretical and practical issues and implications.

The book will be valuable for cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiskrantz, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Bewusstseinszustände

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to 'Blindsight' after 35 years

- New departures in blindsight research

- Introduction to the new paperback edition of 'Blindsight'

- Part I

- 1: Background

- 2: D.B.: clinical history and early testing

- Part II

- 3: Reaching for randomly located targets

- 4: 'Presence' versus 'absence'

- 5: Visual acuity

- 6: Movement thresholds

- 7: Discrimination of orientation

- 8: 'Form' discrimination

- 9: Detection with slow rate of onset

- 10: The natural blind-spot (optic disc) within the scotoma

- 11: Left versus right eye

- 12: Detection of direction of contrast

- 13: 'Waves'

- 14: Matching between impaired and intact fields

- 15: Matching within the impaired field

- 16: Double dissociations between form and detection

- 17: Standard situation

- Part III

- 18: Review of other cases

- 19: Status, issues and implications