Book review of Melvyn Goodale and David Milner

Melvyn Goodale and David Milner:
SIGHT UNSEEN (Oxford Univ Press, 2004)

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This book was inspired by the case of a woman who could not see despite the fact that she was not blind. Basically, her brain did not "know" that it could see. Her blindness was not a matter of the eye not producing the correct visual input, albeit a matter of turning visual input into conscious perception. To explain her case, Goodale and Milner return (in a much more accessible way) to their theory of two visual systems that work in parallel.

See Goodale, Melvyn & Milner, David: THE VISUAL BRAIN IN ACTION (Oxford University Press, 1995)