DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES

9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

SPRING SEMESTER 1999

 

Monday, March 1

Vision:  Disorders

Janine Mendola, MGH-NMR Center

 
 

Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students

Kolb, B., and Whishaw, I.Q.  (1996)  Fundamentals of human neuropsychology (4th ed.).  New York:  W.H. Freeman.  Chapter 11 (pp. 251-263) The Occipital Lobes

Farah, M.J.  (1990)  Visual agnosia:  Disorders of object recognition and what they tell us about normal vision.  MIT Press.
  Chapter 2  The apperceptive agnosias, pp. 7-33
Chapter 4  The associative agnosias, pp. 57-92
Weiskrantz, L.  (1989)  Blindsight, In F. Boller and J. Grafman (Eds.), Handbook of neuropsychology, Vol. 2 (pp. 375-385).  Amsterdam:  Elsevier.
 
 

Required Reading for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)

Etcoff, N.L., Freeman, R., and Cave, K.R.  (1991)  Can we lose memories of faces?  Content specificity and awareness in a prosopagnosic.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, pp. 25-41.
 
 
 
 


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