Friday, January 18, 2008

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision [Paperback]

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Author: Martha J. Farah
ISBN : 9780631214038
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision begins by introducing the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.
  • Paperback: 404 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (June 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631214038
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631214038
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 inches
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

1. Early Vision.

2. From Local To Global Image Representation.

3. The Problem Of Visual Recognition.

4. Object Recognition.

5. Face Recognition.

6. Word Recognition.

7. Visual Attention.

8. Hemispatial Neglect.

9. Mental Imagery.

10. Visual Awareness.

This book provides a very thorough description of the many synergistic mechanisms involved with vision. While you are reading through this review right now, your brain is engaged in numerous streams and pathways of neural activity that allow you to follow and cognitively recognize and understand these words. "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision" describes how visual sensory input is analyzed by various visual systems to allow us to understand our environment. The book itself is not a light read. It is formatted like a textbook and is very rich in detail. In my opinion, this is a great book for those interested in how the brain analyzes the various aspects that come from visual sensory input. Farah tries to give a guided approach to visual cognition by describing the research that led to the discoveries of visual sensory analysis in the brain. Farah organizes the contents of the book in such a way that show the evolution and progression of the field of visual cognition. However, the main aspect of Farah's style that I dislike is that the figures associated with the text are not fully explained and are not juxtaposed alongside their appropriate text.

The beginning of the book looks into the anatomy of the eye, specifically the retina. The story of vision is "with the retina as the starting point, and conscious awareness as the final destination." Farah explains the retina to be a "duplex retina" and the role of the division of labor between the rods and cones. Farah structures the text by first describing components of the retina anatomically and then using research findings to explain the role of the components in vision.
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