Visual Reflections: A Perceptual Deficit and Its Implications

by Michael McCloskey

Book Overview

How much can we learn about normal visual perception and cognition from a malfunctioning visual system? Quite a lot, as Michael McCloskey makes abundantly clear in this book. McCloskey presents his work with AH, a college student who has an extraordinary deficit in visual perception. When AH looks at an object, she sees it clearly and identifies it readily; yet she is often dramatically mistaken about where the object is or how it is oriented. For...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195168690
• ISBN13: 9780195168693
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"