Blindness and Consciousness: new lights from the dark

TY - CHAP

T1 - Blindness and Consciousness: new lights from the dark

AU - Pietrini, Pietro

AU - Ptito, M.

AU - Kupers, R.

N1 - Cochrane: Mangler følgende: Redaktører, by.

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - How what we perceive is transformed into a coherent and integrated representation of the world around us is a question that has fascinated humans since the early days. What happens in our brain that enables us to make sense of what we see, hear, touch, smell or taste? How does the brain of someone who has never had any visual perception form an image of the external world? Do brains from sighted and blind individuals differ and how? In this chapter we discuss recent findings from research in animals as well from functional brain imaging studies in sighted and blind individuals that are shedding new light on how the brain works.

AB - How what we perceive is transformed into a coherent and integrated representation of the world around us is a question that has fascinated humans since the early days. What happens in our brain that enables us to make sense of what we see, hear, touch, smell or taste? How does the brain of someone who has never had any visual perception form an image of the external world? Do brains from sighted and blind individuals differ and how? In this chapter we discuss recent findings from research in animals as well from functional brain imaging studies in sighted and blind individuals that are shedding new light on how the brain works.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-1237-4168-4

SP - 360

EP - 374

BT - The neurology of consciousness

PB - Elsevier

ER -