Impaired Vision

Edward de Haan is a distinguished neuropsychologist with both clinical and research appointments. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has written more than 250 academic papers on vision, perception, memory, and consciousness, as well as on the impact of stroke, diabetes, and schizophrenia. He is President of the Federation for European Societies for Neuropsychology (2018-2019) and he has been an active member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) since the mid-1980s. He is an award-winning educator with more than 30 PhD students, many of whom are now also professors themselves.

• Preface xi1 Looking at the Brain 11.1 A Short History 11.2 The Brain 181.3 This Book and the Patients in It 232 Blind 292.1 A Blind Eye 292.2 A Blind Brain 342.3 Blind Visual Fields 392.4 Imagined Vision 413 Partially Blind 453.1 Where Is It? 463.2 Line Orientation 523.3 Seeing Stroboscopically 563.4 Shapelessness 583.5 A Black‐and‐White World 603.6 Rough and Matte or Smooth and Glossy 664 Looking but Not Seeing 714.1 Wavelength Without Color 714.2 Day or Night? 774.3 Seeing Without Reading and Strange Connections 824.4 What Is That? 874.5 Lost and an Unfamiliar House 954.6 Face Failures and a Family Affair 994.7 I Can’t See Why You Sound Angry and Two Swiss Ladies 1034.8 Classic Syndromes of the Parietal Lobe 1085 Seeing Things Differently 1135.1 Bringing Color to the World 1135.2 Moldy Faces and Fish Heads 1165.3 Dislodged Vision 1255.4 Repetitive Vision 1345.5 Lost Feelings 1386 Seeing What Is Not There 1436.1 Bright Sparks 1436.2 Lively Perception in Poor Vision 1506.3 Filling in the Empty Spaces 1526.4 Neglected but Not Forgotten 1566.5 Electrified Perceptions 1596.6 Hallucinations Resulting from Degenerative Disease 1636.7 Visual Hallucinations in Psychiatric Conditions 1726.8 Strange Desires 1847 Knowing the Unseen 1877.1 Sight Unseen 1877.2 Split Brain 1967.3 Pointing in the Right Direction 2027.4 Vision Without Awareness 2097.5 Ignored but Not Forgotten 2168 Oblivion 2218.1 Seneca’s Trouble 2218.2 Anosognosia 2268.3 Neglect Revisited 2288.4 Lost Colors 2298.5 My Oil Paintings 2318.6 Forgetting Your Amnesia 2359 Vision 2419.1 Scope of the Visual Brain 2429.2 Stages of Vision 2469.3 Damage, Deficits, Distortions, and Delusions 2519.4 Consciousness 2549.5 Looking Back 256Index 261