relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3116/
title: Why cyclops could not compete with Ulysses : monocular vision and mental images
creator: Vecchi, Tomaso
creator: Cattaneo, Zaira
creator: Monegato, Maura
creator: Pece, Alfredo
creator: Cornoldi, Cesare
creator: Pietrini, Pietro
subject: RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
description: The present research demonstrates that the limitations of congenitally blind people in tasks requiring the processing of mental images are specifically related to the absence of binocular vision and not to the absence of vision per se. We contrasted three different groups of participants: sighted; visually impaired, with reduced binocular vision; monocular, with a normal visual acuity although in one eye only. Visually impaired participants (i.e. blurred vision) show a pattern of performance comparable to that of the sighted. In contrast, monocular participants show a similar pattern of performance to congenitally blind individuals despite being able to see perfectly well. These results shed new light on the relationship between perception and imagery and on the characteristics of sequential and simultaneous processes in the human brain.
publisher: Wolters Kluver
date: 2006-05-15
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Vecchi, Tomaso and Cattaneo, Zaira and Monegato, Maura and Pece, Alfredo and Cornoldi, Cesare and Pietrini, Pietro  Why cyclops could not compete with Ulysses : monocular vision and mental images.  Neuroreport, 17 (7).  pp. 723-726.  ISSN 0959-4965      (2006)  
relation: http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2006&issue=05150&article=00007&type=abstract
relation: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000215773.46108.ae