Blindsight : a case study and implications
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Blindsight : a case study and implications
（Oxford psychology series, no. 12）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1998
new paperback ed.
- pbk
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [175]-181
Includes indexes
Introduction to the new paperback edition of Blindsight: p.vii-xl
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Damage to a particular area of the brain - the neocortex - is generally understood to result in blindness. Studies of some patients suffering from this form of blindness have nevertheless revealed that they can discriminate certain types of visual events within their 'blind' fields. They are not aware that they can do so, however and think that they are only guessing. This phenomenon has been termed 'blindsight'. The present book gives an account of research over a number of years into a particular case of blindsight, together with 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.
Table of Contents
- PART 1
- 1. Background
- 2. D.B.: Clinical history and early testing
- PART 2
- 3. Reaching for randomly allocated 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 associations between form and detection
- 17. Standard situation
- PART 3
- Review of other cases
- 19. Status, issues, and implications
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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