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creators_name: Pietrini, Pietro
creators_name: Ptito, Maurice
creators_name: Kupers, Ron
creators_id: pietro.pietrini@imtlucca.it
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title: Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark
ispublished: pub
subjects: RC0321
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: 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.
date: 2009
date_type: published
publisher: Academic Press
place_of_pub: San Diego
pagerange: 360 - 374
pages: 15
id_number: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374168-4.00027-7
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-0-12-374168-4
book_title: The Neurology of Consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology
official_url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123741684000277
citation:   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)