The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision: Collected Tutorial Essays

by Farah,Martha J.

• ISBN13: 9780805809107
• ISBN10: 0805809104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview emphasizing the current state of knowledge and outstanding theoretical issues in the authors' area of research, along with a more in-depth report of an illustrative research project in the same area. The editors and contributors to this volume are among the most respected figures in the field of neuropsychology and perception, making the work presented here a standard-setting text and reference in that area.

Table of Contents

Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition	p. ii
Preface	p. vii
Object Representation And Recognition	p. 1
Cortical Visual Areas and the Neurobiology of Higher Visual Processes	p. 3
References	p. 27
Issues of Representation in Object Vision	p. 33
References	p. 58
Intermediate Visual Processing and Visual Agnosia	p. 63
References	p. 99
Category Specificity in Visual Recognition	p. 103
Specialization Within Visual Object Recognition: Clues from Prosopagnosia and Alexia	p. 133
Visual Word Recognition	p. 147
Functional Mechanisms in Pure Alexia: Evidence from Letter Processing	p. 149
References	p. 168
Neglect Dyslexia: Attention and Word Recognition	p. 173
Top-Down Processes In Vision: Attention And Imagery	p. 215
Visual Attention	p. 217
References	p. 235
Dissociating Components of Visual Attention: A Neurodevelopmental Approach	p. 241
References	p. 265
Visual Mental Images in the Brain: Current Issues	p. 269
References	p. 292
High-Level Vision With And Without Awareness	p. 297
Mechanisms of Implicit Reading in Alexia	p. 299
References	p. 328
Covert Recognition	p. 331
References	p. 345
Implicit Perception in Visual Neglect: Implications for Theories of Attention	p. 359
References	p. 370
Author Index	p. 371
Subject Index	p. 385
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