The Roots of Visual Awareness

by Heywood; Milner; Blakemore

• ISBN13: 9780444509789
• ISBN10: 044450978X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-31
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This volume pays tribute to Alan Cowey, an eminent researcher in the field of visual neuroscience. It includes contributions from among the foremost international authorities on different aspects of vision and visual neuroscience. The book begins examines the fundamental aspects of the visual system, including the control and monitoring of eye movements. It then presents the functional organization of cortical visual areas and their role in visual perception and visually guided action. Also discussed are issues concerning color and motion perception, visual attention, and the effects of brain damage on these different aspects of visual experience. The volume concludes with a final section dealing with questions relating to visual awareness, with particular emphasis on the topic of "blindsight," a concept that Cowey has worked on extensively in recent years.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	v
Foreword by R.L. Gregory (Bristol, UK)	ix
Preface by C. Heywood (Durham and Oxford, UK)	xi
Section I. Visual Pathways
1. Developmental plasticity of photoreceptors
B.E. Reese (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)	3	(38)
2. Morphology and physiology of primate M- and P-cells
L.C.L. Silveira, C.A. Saito, B.B. Lee, J. Kremers, M. da Silva Filho, B.E. Kilavik, E.S. Yamada and V.H. Perry (Pará, Brazil; New York, NY, USA, Göttingen, and Tübingen, Germany and Southampton, UK)
3. Identifying corollary discharges for movement in the primate brain
R.H. Wurtz and M.A. Sommer (Bethesda, MD, USA)	41	(20)
4. Visual awareness and the cerebellum: possible role of decorrelation control
P. Dean, J. Porrill and J.V. Stone (Sheffield, UK)	61	(18)
Section II. Cortical Visual Systems
5. Some effects of cortical and callosal damage on conscious and unconscious processing of visual information and other sensory inputs
G. Berlucchi (Verona, Italy)	79	(16)
6. Consciousness absent and present: a neurophysiological exploration
E.T. Rolls (Oxford, UK)	95	(12)
7. Rapid serial visual presentation for the determination of neural selectivity in area STSa
P. Földiák, D. Xiao, C. Keysers, R. Edwards and D.I. Perrett (St. Andrews, UK)	107	(10)
8. Cortical interactions in vision and awareness: hierarchies in reverse
C.-H. Juan, G. Campana and V. Walsh (Nashville, TN, USA, Oxford and London, UK and Padova, Italy)	117	(14)
9. Two distinct modes of control for object-directed action
M.A. Goodale, D.A. Westwood and A.D. Milner (London, ON and Halifax, NS, Canada and Stockton-on-Tees, UK)	131	(16)
Section III. Perception and Attention
10. Color contrast: a contributory mechanism to color constancy
A. Hurlbert and K. Wolf (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)	147	(14)
11. The primacy of chromatic edge processing in normal and cerebrally achromatopsic subjects
R.W. Kentridge, G.G. Cole and C.A. Heywood (Durham, UK)	161	(10)
12. Neuroimaging studies of attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuli
L. Pessoa and L.G. Ungerleider (Bethesda, MD, USA)	171	(12)
13. Selective visual attention, visual search and visual awareness
C.M. Butter (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)	183	(14)
14. First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems
L.M. Vaina and S. Soloviev (Boston, MA, USA)	197	(16)
15. Reaching between obstacles in spatial neglect and visual extinction
A.D. Milner and R.D. McIntosh (Stockton-on-Tees, UK)	213	(16)
Section IV. Blindsight and Visual Awareness
16. Roots of blindsight
L. Weiskrantz (Oxford, UK)	229	(14)
17. 'Double-blindsight' revealed through the processing of color and luminance contrast defined motion signals
J.L. Barbur (London, UK)	243	(18)
18. Stimulus cueing in blindsight
A. Cowey and P. Stoerig (Oxford, UK and Düsseldorf, Germany)	261	(34)
19. Visually guided behavior after V1 lesions in young and adult monkeys and its relation to blindsight in humans
C.G. Gross, T. Moore and H.R. Rodman (Princeton, NJ and Atlanta, GA, USA)
20. Is blindsight in normals akin to blindsight following brain damage?
C.A. Marzi, A. Minelli and S. Savazzi (Verona, Italy)	295	(10)
21. Auras and other hallucinations: windows on the visual brain
F. Wilkinson (Toronto, ON, Canada)	305	(16)
22. Theories of visual awareness
A. Zeman (Edinburgh, UK)	321	(10)
Subject Index	331