Ways Of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition (Oxford Cognitive Science Series) - Couverture souple

Jacob, Pierre

 
9780198509219: Ways Of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition (Oxford Cognitive Science Series)
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ISBN 10 : 0198509219 ISBN 13 : 9780198509219
Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2004

Synopsis

An eminent philosopher and a world famous neuroscientist collaborate on the question of what it really means to see. A truly interdisciplinary book, it blends neurophysiology, electrophysiological studies, cognitive psychology, psychophysics, and the philosophy of mind, to create a valuable contribution to the field of cognitive science.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ways of seeing is a book about human vision. It results from the collaboration between a world famous cognitive neuroscientist and an eminent philosopher. In the past forty years, cognitive neuroscience has made many startling discoveries about the human brain, and about the human visual system in particular. This book brings many recent empirical findings, from electrophysiological recordings in animals, the neuropsychological examination of human patients, psychophysics, and developmental cognitive psychology, to bear on questions traditionally addressed by philosophers. What is the meaning of the English verb 'to see'? How does visual perception yield knowledge of the world? How does visual perception relate to thought? What is the role of conscious visual experience in visually guided actions? How does seeing actions relate to seeing objects? In the process the book provides a new assessment of the 'two visual systems' hypothesis, according to which the human visual system comprises two anatomical pathways with separable visual functions. The first truly interdisciplinary book about human vision, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many areas of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

Biographie de l'auteur

Pierre Jacob is a Researcher at C.N.R.S., Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France. Marc Jeannerod is a Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198509219
ISBN 13 
9780198509219
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
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9780198509202: Ways of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition

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ISBN 10 :  0198509200 ISBN 13 :  9780198509202
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2003
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