Blind Vision
The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
An investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities.
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of “seeing” as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation.
In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the dev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549882 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262549883 |
| Author: | Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
I would highly recommend Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment…. The book is clearly written and well documented, as well as being the only one that I am aware of that tackles this important but seldom discussed research area.–Paula Goolkasian, PsycCRITIQUES–
About The Author
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo is a Research Scientist at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Tomaso Vecchi is Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Head of the Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and Vice-Rector at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also Head of the Cognitive Neurostimulation Lab at the National Neurological Institute, IRCCS Mondino Foundation.
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