A longstanding controversy concerns the functional organization of high-level vision, and the
extent to which the recognition of different classes of visual stimuli engages a single system …

Face perception is a function with significant complexity, reflected in cognitive models that
propose a hierarchy of parallel and serial processing stages. Current neuroimaging data …

Consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different
“consciousnesses.” Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review
papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a …

In this study, we report a patient (JS) who, following trauma to the right frontal region,
including the orbitofrontal cortex, presented withacquired sociopathy'. His behaviour was …

Face recognition is thought to rely on specific mechanisms underlying a perceptual bias
toward processing faces as undecomposable wholes. This face-specific “holistic processing” …

Background: Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, is associated with medial
occipitotemporal lesions, especially on the right. Functional imaging has revealed a focal …

Semantic dementia is a focal clinical syndrome, resulting from degeneration of the temporal
lobes and characterized by progressive loss of conceptual knowledge about the world …

Acquired prosopagnosia varies in both behavioural manifestations and the location and
extent of underlying lesions. We studied 10 patients with adult‐onset lesions on a battery of …