Ways of seeing : the scope and limits of visual cognition

Ways of seeing : the scope and limits of visual cognition / Pierre Jacob and Marc Jeannerod.

Author/creator	Jacob, Pierre, 1949-
Other author/creator	Jeannerod, Marc.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description	xix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Visual perception. Cognition. Visual Perception--physiology. Vision Disorders--physiopathology.

Series	Oxford cognitive science series Oxford cognitive science series. ^A399392
Contents	Introduction: what is human visual cognition? -- pt. I The purposes of vision: perceiving, thinking and acting -- 1 The representational theory of the visual mind -- pt. II Empirical evidence for the duality of visual processing 2 Multiple pathways in the primate visual system -- 3 Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients -- 4 The varieties of normal human visual processing -- pt. III Perceiving objects and grasping them -- 5 Visual perception -- 6 Visuomotor representations -- pt. IV The perception of action -- 7 Seeing humans act -- Epilogue: the two visual systems revisited -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and indexes.
ISBN	0198509200
ISBN	0198509219 (pbk.)