The Neuropsychology of Vision

Fahle, Manfred (EDT)/ Greenlee, Mark (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2003/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 366 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198505822
• DDC分類 152.14

Full Description

The Neuropsychology of Vision describes a range of new approaches to neuropsychological investigation and provides a broad overview of visual neuropsychology. The book starts by presenting the results from new research employing single-unit recordings, on the neuronal basis of perception demonstrating that the visual system relies strongly on feedback from higher to lower levels of information processing, and that neuronal plasticity exists in the primary sensory cortices of adults, areas previously considered to be hard-wired. The book also describes other new and adapted techniques to measure brain activity, including multi-unit sum potential recording, functional magnetic resonance imaging and employing transcranial magnetic stimulation to induce temporary, circumscribed functional lesions in the cortices of normal subjects to mimic disorders.

The coverage then moves on to review the experience of patients suffering from disturbances of visual perception. The disorders covered include agnosia, neglect, blindsight and achromatopsia. The final chapter is devoted to recovery and rehabilitation from cerebral visual disorder.

Professors Fahle and Greenlee have brought together some of the leading international specialists in the field to provide this comprehensive and up-to-date review.

Contents

PART I: PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM: SINGLE CELLS ; PART II: SUM-POTENTIALS IN HUMANS: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY ; PART III: IMAGING STUDIES: FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY ; PART IV: LESION STUDIES IN TRAINED MONKEYS AND HUMANS (TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION) ; PART V: PSYCHOPHYSICS: PATIENT STUDIES ; PART VI: REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY