Libri di Zaira Cattaneo
Biografia e opere di Zaira Cattaneo
Psicologia delle differenze sessuali
Tomaso Vecchi , Zaira Cattaneo
editore: Carocci
pagine: 110
Esistono differenze tra gli individui legate al sesso cui appartengono? La risposta pare scontata se si considera che tutti noi immediatamente distinguiamo i nostri simili sulla base del loro essere maschi o femmine. La semplicità, solo apparente, di questo quesito ci introduce al dibattito sulle differenze determinate dall'appartenenza sessuale, soprattutto quelle rilevabili in ambito cognitivo e nel comportamento emozionale. In questo libro si vede se, come e quanto uomini e donne differiscano nelle loro abilità cognitive e si cerca di chiarire come alla determinazione di tali differenze concorrano sia fattori genetici e biologici sia i vissuti personali e in generale il contesto socio-culturale.
Blind Vision
The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
Tomaso Vecchi , Zaira Cattaneo
editore: MIT PRESS
pagine: 280
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of "seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysiological data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on mental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatory mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals with complete or profound visual impairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to "see." Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of broad importance: the relationship of visual perception to imagery and working memory and the extent to which mental imagery depends on normal vision; the functional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visual experience that are crucial to cognitive development or specific cognitive mechanisms; and the extraordinary plasticity of the brain -- as illustrated by the way that, in the blind, the visual cortex may be reorganized to support other perceptual or cognitive funtions. In the absence of vision, the other senses work as functional substitutes and are often improved. With Blind Vision, Cattaneo and Vecchi take on the "tyranny of the visual," pointing to the importance of the other senses in cognition.
