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Author Cattaneo, Zaira, 1979-

Title Blind vision : the neuroscience of visual impairment / Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011
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Description 1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations
Contents Blindness and sensory compensation -- The relationship between visual perception, imagery, and cognitive functions -- Imagery and working memory processes in the blind -- Spatial cognition in the blind -- Low vision -- The importance of blindness onset -- Cortical plasticity and blindness
Summary Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. Here the authors examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system
Analysis NEUROSCIENCE/Visual Neuroscience
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
NEUROSCIENCE/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-264) and index
Notes English
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Subject Blindness -- Pathophysiology
Vision disorders -- Pathophysiology
Cognitive neuroscience.
Blindness -- physiopathology
Blindness -- psychology
Cognitive Science -- methods
Perception -- physiology
Visually Impaired Persons -- psychology
MEDICAL -- Ophthalmology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Vision.
Cognitive neuroscience
Form Electronic book
Author Vecchi, Tomaso, 1966-
LC no. 2010018807
ISBN 9780262295819
0262295814
9780262294591
0262294591
1283258579
9781283258579
9786613258571
6613258571