Psychology Press The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision: Collected Tutorial Essays (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series)

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview emphasizing the current state of knowledge and outstanding theoretical issues in the authors' area of research, along with a more in-depth report of an illustrative research project in the same area. The editors and contributors to this volume are among the most respected figures in the field of neuropsychology and perception, making the work presented here a standard-setting text and reference in that area. Review "The last ten years have seen greatly increased interest in how neurological disorders can inform our understanding of higher level vision. A variety of striking new phenomena have been uncovered and new theoretical approaches developed. This excellently organised book brings together in-depth analyses by nearly all the leading experts on the topic. It will become the definitive work in the field."—Professor Tim ShalliceUniversity College, London