Description
This volume attempts to cover Professor Alan Cowey’s wide range of research interests in visual science, and 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. The section opens with a historical introduction by Larry Weiskrantz, and includes a chapter by Alan himself, co-authored by Petra Stoerig. It ends with two more broadly based chapters aimed at general questions concerning the nature of visual awareness.
