The Visual Brain in Action
The MIT Press eBooksPublished 25 October 2002
A. David Milner, Melvyn A. Goodale
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Abstract
Prologue 1. Introduction: vision from a biological point of view 2. Visual processing in the primate visual cortex 3. 'Cortical blindness' 4. Disorders of spatial perception and the visual control of action 5. Disorders of visual recognition 6. Dissociations between perception and action in normal subjects 7. Attention, consciousness, and the coordination of behaviour 8. Epilogue: twelve years on
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