Ways of Seeing: The scope and limits of visual cognition
Pierre Jacob and Marc Jeannerod
Abstract
This book is 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 Englis ... More
This book is 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.
Keywords:
brain,
visual system,
electrophysiology,
neuropsychology,
psychophysics,
cognitive psychology,
vision
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198509219 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198509219.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Pierre Jacob, author
Researcher at CNRS, Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France
Marc Jeannerod, author
Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
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