One of the century's most distinguished neuropsychologists, Lawrence Weiskrantz is a Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The unseen and the unknown ; 3. Deficits, degradation, and dissociations ; 4. The "What?" of consciousness ; 5. Animal consciousness - the problem of "whether?" ; 6. The memory commentary is NOW ; 7. Attributes and possible pathways of residual visual capacity ; 8. The evolutionary "why"? ; 9. The question of "how?" ; 10. And so... ; Appendix - Terminology

His meticulous documentation of neuropsychological experiment gives the book a reassuring infrastructure.