Disorders of Visual Behavior (Handbook of Neuropsychology, Vol.4)

Oversized hardcover, xiii + 252 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior in attractive little used condition, clean and bright, with unmarked text and secure binding, free of readily noticeable creasing. Boards show shelfworn marks, gentle scratches and mild indentations, a hint of scuffing. Issued without a dust jacket. --- Volume four of the all-new "Handbook of Neuropsychology" addresses the disorders of visual behaviour. This work reviews the neurophysiology of spatial vision, as well as recent work on recognition deficits for faces, objects and words. Also presented are disorders of spatial representation, of colour processing and of mental imagery. Balint's syndrome, blindsight, and visuospatial or constructional disorders are discussed and the relationship between eye movements and brain damage are described in detail. --- Contents: 1. Central Color Processing and Its Disorders / Daniel Tranel; 2. Brain Damage and Eye Movements / Jason J.S. Barton; 3. Spatial Representations / Carol L. Colby and Michael E. Goldberg; 4: Levels of Impairment in Unilateral Neglect / Paolo Bartolomeo and Sylvie Chokron; 5. Constructional and Visuospatial Disorders / Dario Grossi and Luigi Trojano; 6. Bálint's Syndrome / Robert Rafal; 7. Visual Aspects of Anasognosia, Confabulation, and Misidentification / Todd E. Feinberg and David M. Roane; 8. Neuropsychological Disorders of Visual Object Recognition and Naming / Glyn W. Humphreys and M. Jane Riddoch; 9: Face Recognition: Evidence from Intact and Impaired Performance / Marlene Behrmann and Morris Moscovitch; 10. Peripheral Dyslexias / H. Branch Coslett and Eleanor M. Saffran; 11. Blindsight / L. Weiskrantz; 12. The Neuropsychology of Mental Imagery / Martha J. Farah; Subject Index. …