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The Roots of Visual Awareness

Heywood, C.A.; Milner, A.D.; Blakemore, C.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • THE ROOTS OF VISUAL AWARENESSiii
  • Copyright Pageiv
  • Contentsxiii
  • List of Contributorsv
  • Forewordix
  • Prefacexi
  • Section I: Visual Pathways1
  • Chapter 1. Developmental plasticity of photoreceptors3
  • Chapter 2. Morphology and physiology of primate M- and P-cells21
  • Chapter 3. Identifying corollary discharges for movement in the primate brain47
  • Chapter 4. Visual awareness and the cerebellum: possible role of decorrelation control61
  • Section II: Cortical Visual Systems77
  • Chapter 5. Some eflects of cortical and callosal damage on conscious and unconscious processing of v79
  • Chapter 6. Consciousness absent and present: a neurophysiological exploration95
  • Chapter 7. Rapid serial visual presentation for the determination of neural selectivity in area STSa107
  • Chapter 8. Cortical interactions in vision and awareness: hierarchies in reverse117
  • Chapter 9. Two distinct modes of control for object-directed action131
  • Section III: Perception and Attention145
  • Chapter 10. Color contrast: a contributory mechanism to color constancy147
  • Chapter 11. The primacy of chromatic edge processing in normal and cerebrally achromatopsic subjects161
  • Chapter 12. Neuroimaging studies of attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuli171
  • Chapter 13. Selective visual attention, visual search and visual awareness183
  • Chapter 14. First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinc197
  • Chapter 15. Reaching between obstacles in spatial neglect and visual extinction213
  • Section IV: Blindsight and Visual Awareness227
  • Chapter 16. Roots of blindsight229
  • Chapter 17. ‘Double-blindsight’ revealed through the processing of color and luminance contrast243
  • Chapter 18. Stimulus cueing in blindsight261
  • Chapter 19. Visually guided behavior after V1 lesions in young and adult monkeys and its relation to279
  • Chapter 20. Is blindsight in normals akin to blindsight following brain damage?295
  • Chapter 21. Auras and other hallucinations: windows on the visual brain305
  • Chapter 22. Theories of visual awareness321
  • Subject Index331
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444509789
  • ISBN-13 9780080498102
  • Author Heywood, C.A.; Milner, A.D.; Blakemore, C.
  • Category Psychology
  • Subject Neuropsychology

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The present volume was assembled in honor of Professor Alan Cowey FRS, and attempts to embrace his wide range of research interests in visual neuroscience. It is divided into four sections.



The first contains a group of papers dealing with different fundamental aspects of the visual system, including the control and monitoring of eye movements. The second is concerned with the functional organization of cortical visual areas and their role in visual perception and visually guided action. The third addresses issues concerning color and motion perception, along with broader questions of visual attention; and the effects of selective brain damage on these different aspects of visual experience. The fourth and final section of the volume deals explicitly with questions relating to visual awareness, with particular emphasis on 'blindsight', a topic on which Alan Cowey has worked extensively in recent years, both in humans and in monkeys.