Visual Reflections: A Perceptual Deficit and Its Implications
How much can we learn about normal visual perception and cognition from a malfunctioning visual system? Quite a lot, as Michael McCloskey makes abundantly clear in this book. McCloskey presents his work with AH, a college student who has an extraordinary deficit in visual perception. When AH looks at an object, she sees it clearly and identifies it readily; yet she is often dramatically mistaken about where the object is or how it is oriented. For example, shemay reach out to grasp an object that she sees on her left, but miss it completely because it is actually on her right; or she may see an arrow pointing up when it is really pointing…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-516869-3
- EAN: 9780195168693
- Produktnummer: 22674583
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 311 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 612 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 47
- Gewicht: 612
Über den Autor
Michael McCloskey is Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on mental representation and computation in visual-spatial cognition and lexical processing. He studies cognitive deficits in children and adults with brain damage or learning disabilities, with the aim of gaining insight into normal cognitive representations and processes, and how they are disrupted when the brain is damaged or fails to develop normally. Hereceived his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University.
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