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An investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities.Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of'seeing'as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysiological data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on mental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatory mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals with complete or profound visual impairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to'see.'Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of broad importance: the relationship of visual perception to imagery and working memory and the extent to which mental imagery depends on normal vision; the functional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visual experience that are crucial to cog

Author

Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262295819

Subjects

Science, Psychology, Medical

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24