The space between our ears : how the brain represents visual space
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The space between our ears : how the brain represents visual space
Oxford University Press, 2003
- : pbk
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内容説明
In "The Space Between our Ears", Michael Morgan explains how our brain interprets what we see. Using a wealth of sources from over the centuries including philosophical writings, scientific thinking, experiments, passages from poems and novels, and scenes from films, Morgan reveals the difficulty in working out exactly how we make and receive our visual perceptions. To illustrate various points the book includes optical drawings as well as simple experiments that the reader can perform to test the different components of sight and our reactions to it. The book describes and criticises recent attempts to locate the 'neural correlates of consciousness' in specific parts of the brain. Against what he calls the 'secretion theory of consciousness', Morgan controversially argues that visual perception is most likely to be a function of the whole visual pathway, not just a small part of it. This intelligent, engaging book provides a revelatory overview of what we know about how the brain works regarding visual space, giving a unique insight into one of our most vital yet least understood senses.
目次
- PART ONE: IMAGES AND MAPS
- 1. Murder on the highway
- 2. Conventional signs
- 3. 'The long agitated question'
- 4. Cyclopean vision
- 5. 'Objects moving are not impressed'
- PART TWO: MAPS AND MODELS
- 6. 'Actual dynamical models of things'
- 7. Machines that learn
- 8. Controlled hallucination
- 9. The Babel Library of icons
- PART THREE: SPACE AND THE BODY
- 10. 'Whirling madly through the darkness'
- 11. Frames of reference
- PART FOUR: THE LOCALISATION OF AWARENESS
- 12. Who killed the chauffeur?
- 13. Where is fancy bred?
- 14. Unconscious perception
- 15. The secretion theory of consciousness
- 16. Into the mill
- Conclusion
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