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Blindspots : the many ways we cannot see /
Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and comple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; PART I: BLINDNESS CORPOREAL; ONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF VISION AND BLINDNESS; TWO: OUR INHERITANCE: Functional Constraints on "Normal" Vision; THREE: OUR MISINHERITANCE: Blindness 1; FOUR: OUR MISFORTUNE: Blindness 2; FIVE: EXPERIMENTAL SLEIGHT-OF-HAND OR: Whoa! Where Did It Go and Where Did It Come From?; PART II: BLINDNESS BORDERLANDS: Between the (Corpo)Real and the Metaphorical; SIX: VISUAL AGNOSIAS AND NEGLECT; SEVEN: BLINDNESS AND THE MIND'S EYE; PART III: BLINDNESS METAPHORICAL; EIGHT: SEEING AND NOT SEEING IN THE VISUAL ARTS.