Ways of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition

Introduction: What is human visual cognition PART I: THE PURPOSES OF VISION: PERCEIVING, THINKING AND ACTING 1. The representational theory of the visual mind PART II: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DUALITY OF VISUAL PROCESSING 2. Multiple pathways in the primate visual system 3. Dissociations of visual functions by brain lesions in human patients 4. The varieties of normal human visual processing PART III: PERCEIVING OBJECTS AND GRASPING THEM 5. Visual perception 6. Visuomotor representations PART IV: THE PERCEPTION OF ACTION 7. Seeing humans act Epilogue: The two visual systems revisited