Blindspots : the many ways we cannot see / Bruno G. Breitmeyer.

Author: Breitmeyer, Bruno G.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Descriptionxiv, 266 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Note:A brief history of vision and blindness -- Our inheritance : functional constraints on 'normal' vision -- Our misinheritance: blindness 1 -- Our misfortune: blindness 2 -- Experimental sleight-of-hand or : whoa! where did it go and where did it come from? -- Visual agnosias and neglect -- Blindness and the mind's eye -- Seeing and not seeing in the visual arts -- Cognitive blindspots: bloopers and blunders -- Cognition cultural and personal : blinders and wonders.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.

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