Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of"seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details,the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneoand Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on thedevelopment and functioning of the human cognitive system. Drawing on behavioral andneurophysiological data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on mental imagery, spatial cognition,and compensatory mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals withcomplete or profound visual impairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to "see."Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of broad importance: the relationship of visualperception to imagery and working memory and the extent to which mental imagery depends on normalvision; the functional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specificaspects of the visual experience that are crucial to cognitive development or specific cognitivemechanisms; and the extraordinary plasticity of the brain--as illustrated by the way that, in theblind, the visual cortex may be reorganized to support other perceptual or cognitive funtions. Inthe absence of vision, the other senses work as functional substitutes and are often improved. WithBlind Vision, Cattaneo and Vecchi take on the "tyranny of the visual," pointing to theimportance of the other senses in cognition.
Zaira Cattaneo is a Research Scientist at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
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