relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3092/
title: Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark
creator: Pietrini, Pietro
creator: Ptito, Maurice
creator: Kupers, Ron
subject: RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
description: How what we perceive is transformed into a coherent and integrated representation of the world around us is  a question that has fascinated humans since the early days. What happens in our brain that enables us to make  sense of what we see, hear, touch, smell or taste? How does the brain of someone who has never had any visual  perception form an image of the external world? Do brains from sighted and blind individuals differ and how? In  this chapter we discuss recent findings from research in animals as well from functional brain imaging studies in  sighted and blind individuals that are shedding new light on how the brain works.
publisher: Academic Press
date: 2009
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Pietrini, Pietro and Ptito, Maurice and Kupers, Ron  Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark.   In:  The Neurology of Consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology.   Academic Press, San Diego, 360 - 374.  ISBN 978-0-12-374168-4      (2009)  
relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123741684000277
relation: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374168-4.00027-7