The Visual Brain in Action
David Milner and Mel Goodale
Abstract
First published in 1995, this book 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. 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 ... More
First published in 1995, this book 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. 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, which reviews 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 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 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 largely on evidence accrued from primate neuroscience in conjunction with studies of neurological patients.
Keywords:
cognitive science,
visual processing,
perception,
action,
conscious perception,
unconscious vision,
psychology,
neuroscience,
euroimaging,
MRI
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198524724 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198524724.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David Milner, author
University of Durham
Mel Goodale, author
University of Western Ontario
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