Blindspots the many ways we cannot see

Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and comple...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Breitmeyer, Bruno G., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press 2010.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798025706719
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Contents; PART I: BLINDNESS CORPOREAL; ONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF VISION AND BLINDNESS; TWO: OUR INHERITANCE: Functional Constraints on "Normal" Vision; THREE: OUR MISINHERITANCE: Blindness 1; FOUR: OUR MISFORTUNE: Blindness 2; FIVE: EXPERIMENTAL SLEIGHT-OF-HAND OR: Whoa! Where Did It Go and Where Did It Come From?; PART II: BLINDNESS BORDERLANDS: Between the (Corpo)Real and the Metaphorical; SIX: VISUAL AGNOSIAS AND NEGLECT; SEVEN: BLINDNESS AND THE MIND'S EYE; PART III: BLINDNESS METAPHORICAL; EIGHT: SEEING AND NOT SEEING IN THE VISUAL ARTS
  • NINE: COGNITIVE BLINDSPOTS: Bloopers and BlundersTEN: COGNITION CULTURAL AND PERSONAL: Blinders and Wonders; EPILOGUE: SPEAKING OF LOVE; Suggested Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z