The Neuropsychology of Vision

by Fahle, Manfred; Greenlee, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780198505822
• ISBN10: 0198505825
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Neuropsychology of Vision describes a range of exciting new approaches to neuropsychological investigation and provides a broad overview of visual neuropsychology. The book starts by examining the neural basis of perception - presenting important new research using single-unit recordings. Recent work using these methods has shown how the visual system relies strongly on feedback from higher to lower levels of information processing, and that neural plasticity exists in the primary sensory cortices of adults, areas previously thought to be hard-wired. The book also considers disturbances of visual perception such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and achromatopsia, describing what we now know about recovery and rehabilitation from cerebral visual disorders. Throughout, the book refers to new and adapted techniques for measuring brain activity, including multi-unit sum potential recording, fMRI, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. With contributions from leading scientists in the vision sciences, this book provides a state-of-the-art review of the topic. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xvii
Part 1 Physiology and anatomy of the visual system: single cells
1 Vision, behaviour, and the single neuron	3	(20)
Gregor Rainer and Nikos K. Logothetis
2 Cortical connections and functional interactions between visual cortical areas	23	(44)
Jean Bidlier
Part 2 Sum potentials in humans: electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography
3 Electro- and magneto-encephalographic and event-related potential studies of visual processing in normals and neurological patients	67	(26)
Thomas F. Münte and Hans-Jochen Heinze
Part 3 Imaging studies: functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography
4 Functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography studies of motion perception, eye movements, and reading	93	(28)
Mark W. Greenlee
Part 4 Lesion studies in trained monkeys and humans (transcranial magnetic stimulation)
5 Lesions in primate visual cortex leading to deficits of visual perception	121	(42)
William H. Merigan and Tatiana Pasternak
6 Magnetic stimulation in studies of vision and attention	163	(16)
Amanda Ellison, Lauren Stewart, Alan Cowey, and Vincent Walsh
Part 5 Psychophysics: patient studies
7 Failures of visual analysis: scotoma, agnosia, and neglect	179	(80)
Manfred Fahle
8 Colour vision and its disturbances after cortical lesions	259	(24)
C.A. Heywood and A. Cowey
9 Unconscious perception: blindsight	283	(24)
L. Weiskrantz
10 Perception, memory, and agnosia	307	(12)
Martha J. Farah
Part 6 Rehabilitation and recovery
11 Recovery and rehabilitation of cerebral visual disorders	319	(20)
Josef Zihi
Index	339