The Seeing Brain
From the Author
Cognitive Neuroscience Bitesize on Early Visual Processes in the Brain
Cognitive Neuroscience Bitesize on Object Recognition – The Ventral Stream
A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Seeing Brain”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7HytJiyFk
Short and Sweet
Hubel and Wiesel discuss their classic experiments on the neurons of the visual cortex
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHayh06LJ4
Nancy Kanwisher TED talk – A neural portrait of the human mind
www.ted.com/talks/nancy_kanwisher_a_neural_portrait_of_the_human_mind
Visual agnosia (problems with object recognition) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8VVtBgK7A&t=48s
Prosopagnosia (face blindness)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqsBk7Wn-Y
Aphantasia: Seeing the world without a mind’s eye
A Deeper Dive
The BBC Documentary Brain Story – The Mind’s Eye has interviews and demonstrations relating to this chapter
www.archive.org/details/BBC.Brain.Story.3of6.The.Minds.Eye.XviD.AC3.HDTVM4ripos4