All links are submitted by students of the course. To post links or points of interest on this page send a message to: nadin@cooper.edu.
submitted by Thea Kluge
Face-blindness is when you are unable to recognize other humans by their faces in spite of having good eye sight.
submitted by Thea Kluge
This is the inability to perceive motion in a changing visual environment. Moving ojects are seen as a series of stationary images. The lesions are usually bilateral in the occipital cortex.
submitted by Thea Kluge
“Scabrous points of decay on the right side of the brain divorce, so it’s thought, the recognitive from the emotive. Whilst you may recognise the face of your lover or father or brother there is no emotional response and it is this which leads to the peculiar features of Capgrass where the person thinks their family is full of impostors…”
submitted by Matthew Martin
Interesting information on eye-movement control. Posits that the brain sees only one thing at a time.
submitted by Richard Yoo
Experiments were done on split-brain patients whom had undergone a Corpus Callosotomy (In which the left and right hemisphere in the brain are separated due to severe epilepsy).
submitted by Matthew Martin
Not all related to the visual system, but I thought a few of these cases were interesting to read about.
submitted by Aubrey Franchell
OBEs are brief sensations that occur when a person feels as if his mind separates from his body. During OBEs, people sense that they are floating above their own bodies. No one knows what causes OBEs, but some people believe that OBEs are religious or spiritual events.
submitted by Leah Hebert
The use of binaural beat brainwave entertainment technology has been attributed to controlling the how the brain has lucid dreams, altered states, deep relaxation, euphoria, increased intuition, awareness, enhanced creativity, accelerated learning, psychic abilities, elimination of insomnia and the symptoms of stress, and increased endorphin levels.
submitted by Eri Hamaji
“Damasio proposes a structure beginning with something he calls the proto-self, which might be described as that state existing moment by moment in which the organism collects and regulates peripheral information at many levels of brain operation to ensure ongoing maintenance of a coherent physical organism…”
submitted by Eva Zucherman
This is an article that deals with our brain and its ability to recognize things and how our recognition system relates to learning. In the article, Antonion Damasio’s book, and concept of the Protoself, is mentioned and it looks at how these developments affect our ideas about teaching and learning.
submitted by Peter Nadin
A Perspective on the Biological Basis of Aesthetic Preferences from Neuropsychological Study of Artistic Creativity
submitted by Lea Cetera
A website devoted to artists, writers, architects, art historians and philosophers whose work is concerned with neuroscience.