| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of contributors -- General background -- 1. Motion blindness / C.A. Heywood and J. Zihl -- 2. Cerebral achromatopsia / C.A. Heywood and A. Cowey -- 3. Integrative agnosia / Glyn W. Humphreys -- 4. Apperceptive agnosia: a deficit of perceptual categorisation of objects / Jules Davidoff & Elizabeth K. Warrington -- 5. Vision and visual mental imagery / Marlene Behrmann, Morris Moscovitch and Gordon Winocur -- 6. Category-specific recognition impairments for living and nonliving things / Emer M.E. Forde -- 7. Optic aphasia: a review of some classic cases / M. Jane Riddoch -- 8. Covert recognition and anosognosia in prosopagnosic patients / Edward H.F. De Haan -- 9. Relations among the agnosias / Martha J. Farah -- Author index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
One important means to understanding normal cognitive functions is the study of the breakdown of these functions following brain damage. This book provides reviews of major case studies dealing with the breakdown of visual perception and recognition, including the disorders of motion vision, colour vision, perceptual integration, perceptual classification, recognition of particular categories of object, semantic access from vision (in optic aphasia), and recognition impairments with relative sparing of imagery. The cases are discussed in the light of studies that have followed since, and the c |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vision disorders.
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Visual agnosia.
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Color blindness.
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Neuropsychology.
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Visual perception.
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Agnosia.
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Visual agnosia -- Case studies
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Neuropsychology -- Case studies
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Visual perception -- Case studies
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Agnosia
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Visual Perception
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Neuropsychology
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Vision Disorders
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Color Vision Defects
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visual perception.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Agnosia
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Color blindness
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Neuropsychology
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Vision disorders
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Visual agnosia
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Visual perception
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Hirnschädigung
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Neuropsychologie
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Sehstörung
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Visuele waarneming.
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Neuropsychologie.
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Humphreys, Glyn W
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| ISBN |
9781134841264 |
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1134841264 |
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9780203765500 |
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0203765508 |
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9781134841400 |
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113484140X |
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9781134841332 |
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1134841337 |
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