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Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our
conscious visual experience of the world is so rich and detailed
that we can hardly distinguish it from the real thing. But as
Goodale and Milner make clear in their prize-winning book, Sight
Unseen, our visual experience of the world is not all there is to
vision. Some of the most important things that vision does for us
never reach our consciousness at all. In this updated and extended
new edition, Goodale and Milner explore one of the most
extraordinary neurological cases of recent years--one that
profoundly changed scientific views on the visual brain. It is the
story of Dee Fletcher--a young woman who became blind to shape and
form as a result of brain damage. Dee was left unable to recognize
objects or even tell one simple geometric shape from another. As
events unfolded, however, Goodale and Milner found that Dee wasn't
in fact blind -- she just didn't know that she could see. They
showed, for example, that Dee could reach out and grasp objects
with amazing dexterity, despite being unable to perceive their
shape, size, or orientation. Taking us on a journey into the
unconscious brain, the two scientists who made this incredible
discovery tell the amazing story of their work, and the surprising
conclusion they were forced to reach. Written to be accessible to
students and popular science readers, this book is a fascinating
illustration of the power of the 'unconscious' mind.
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