Ways of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition

by Pierre Jacob, Marc Jeannerod

Overview

An eminent philosopher and a world famous neuroscientist collaborate on the question of what it really means to see. A truly interdisciplinary book, it blends neurophysiology, electrophysiological studies, cognitive psychology, psychophysics, and the philosophy of mind, to create a valuable contribution to the field of cognitive science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198509219
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/11/2003
Series:	Oxford Cognitive Science Series
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 6.36(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris

Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon

Table of Contents

Introduction: what is human visual cognitionPart I: The Purposes of Vision: Perceiving, Thinking and Acting1. The representational theory of the visual mind1.1. A teleosemantic account of visual percepts1.2. Visual intentionalism, sense-data and disjunctivism1.3. Conceptual content and nonconceptual content1.4. Elements of cognitive dynamics1.5. Actions and the intentionality of intentionsPart II: Empirical Evidence for the Duality of Visual Processing2. Multiple pathways in the primate visual system2.1. The where and the what: two visual systems2.2. Two cortical visual systems2.3. Neural mechanisms for object discrimination: the encoding of intrinsic object properties2.4. Neural mechanisms for space perception: the encoding of spatial relationships in the posterior parietal lobe2.5. Neural mechanisms for acting in space: the visuomotor functions of posterior parietal areas2.6. Conclusion3. Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients3.1. Introduction3.2. Visual impairment following lesion of the primary visual cortex3.3. Impairment in visual perception and recognition of objects following occipito-temporal lesion3.4. Impairments in visually guided behaviour following lesions in the dorsal stream3.5. Visuospatial disorders following lesions in the parietal lobes4. The varieties of normal human visual processing4.1. Pointing to an unperceived target4.2. Temporal properties of perceptual and visuomotor processings4.3. Time and awareness in perceptual and visuomotor tasks4.4. Frames of reference4.5. Do size-contrast illusions deceive pointing? 4.6. Do size-contrast illusions deceive grasping? 4.7. Disentangling the pictorial from the motoric role of annuli4.8. The inerplay between perceptual judgement and visuomotor processing4.9. Concluding remarksPart III: Perceiving Objects and Grasping Them5. Visual perception5.1. Introduction5.2. Visual perception, identification and recognition5.3. The interaction of visual and non-visual knowledge5.4. The scope and limits of visual knowledge5.5. How intelligent are perceptual processes? 5.6. Is seeing believing? 5.7. The phenomenology of visual experience6. Visuomotor representations6.1. Introduction6.2. Seeing affordances6.3. Evidence for dual visual processing in primates6.4. What is it like to see with a dorsal pathway? 6.5. The perceptual individuation of visual objects by location6.6. The motoric encapsulation of visuomotor representations6.7. Are there visuomotor representations at all? 6.8. The role of visuomotor representations in the human cognitive architecturePart IV: The Perception of Action7. Seeing humans act7.1. Introduction7.2. From grasping objects to manipulating tools7.3. The primary level of visual processing of actions7.4. Seeing object-oriented actions7.5. The social perception systemEpilogue: the two visual systems revisited1. The complexities of pragmatic processing2. The contribution of the parietal lobes to human vision