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The Visual Brain in Action (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Visual Brain in Action (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series, 27
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First published in 1995, 'The Visual Brain in Action' remains a
seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. It presents a model
for understanding the visual processing underlying perception and
action, proposing a broad distinction within the brain between two
kinds of vision: conscious perception and unconscious 'online'
vision. It argues that each kind of vision can occur
quasi-independently of the other, and is separately handled by a
quite different processing system. In the 11 years since
publication, the book has provoked considerable interest and debate
- throughout both cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, while the
field has continued to flourish and develop.
For this new edition, the text from the original edition has been
left untouched, standing as a coherent statement of the authors'
position. However, a very substantial epilogue has been added to
the book in which Milner and Goodale review some of the key
developments that support or challenge the views that were put
forward in the first edition. The new chapter summarizes
developments in various relevant areas of psychology, neuroscience
and behaviour. It notably supplements the main text by updating the
reader on the contributions that have emerged from the use of
functional neuroimaging, which was in its infancy when the first
edition was written. Neuroimaging, and functional MRI in
particular, has revolutionized the field over the past 11 years by
allowing investigators to plot in detail the patterns of activity
within the visual brains of behaving and perceiving humans. The
authors show how its use now allows scientists to test and confirm
their proposals, based as they then were largely on evidence
accruedfrom primate neuroscience in conjunction with studies of
neurological patients.
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