Volume 31, Number 15 · October 11, 1984
Seeing Through the Brain
By Israel Rosenfield
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
by David Marr
W.H. Freeman, 397 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Most of us seeing the kettle upside down on the kitchen floor would react by saying, 'How did that get there?' or, 'The cat's been at it again!' We would not wonder what we were seeing. But not everyone is so fortunate. In 1973, the English neurologist Elizabeth Warrington [1] told an MIT audience about patients with damage to the right side of the brain who had no trouble identifying water buckets and similar objects in side views, yet were unable to identify them from above. Another group of patients with damage to the brain's left side readily identified the water bucket from both views of it.
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