The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Sacks, Oliver; Stein, Samuel M.

doi:10.1192/bjp.166.1.130

Cited by 128 publications

(114 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

106

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, the neglect patient may eat food only from the one side of the plate, may dress only one side of the body and so on. Interestingly these patients do not experience any "missing space": they are just not aware of the fact that their phenomenal space represents only one half of the real physical world [365]. At the same time experiments show that in such patients visually presented objects can still be fully processed in the brain, but outside of consciousness [332].…”

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 93%

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

168

233

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system -the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in the brain. This space-time is limited to the execution of brain operations of differing complexity. During each such brain operation a particular short-term spatio-temporal pattern of integrated activity of different brain areas emerges within related operational space-time. At the same time, to have a fully functional human brain one needs to have a subjective mental experience. Current research on the subjective mental experience offers detailed analysis of space-time organization of the mind. According to this research, subjective mental experience (subjective virtual world) has definitive spatial and temporal properties similar to many physical phenomena. Based on systematic review of the propositions and tenets of brain and mind space-time descriptions, our aim in this review essay is to explore the relations between the two. To be precise, we would like to discuss the hypothesis that via the brain operational space-time the mind subjective space-time is connected to otherwise distant physical space-time reality.Key words: spatial, temporal, consciousness, cognition, operation, architectonics, EEG, field, metastability, physics, coordinative dynamics, self-organization, cortex.

show abstract

Section: Phenomenal Spacementioning

confidence: 93%

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Fingelkurts

Neves

2010

Physics of Life Reviews

168

233

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…With rare exceptions, however (e.g., K. Goldstein, 1934Goldstein, /1995Luria, 1966;Sacks, 1974Sacks, , 1985Sacks, , 1995, neuropsychologists have seldom inquired into their patients' personal and social lives. And, whether for lack of interest or lack of access, personality and social psychologists have rarely studied the victims of brain damage.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology.

Klein¹,

Loftus²,

Kihlstrom³

1996

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

220

209

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The authors present the case of W.J., who, as a result of a head injury, temporarily lost access to her episodic memory. W.J. was asked both during her amnesia and following its resolution to make trait judgments about herself. Because her responses when she could access episodic memories were consistent with her responses when she could not, the authors conclude that the loss of episodic memory did not greatly affect the availability of her trait self-knowledge. The authors discuss how neuropsychological evidence can contribute to theorizing about personality and social processes.

show abstract

“…We need`litmus test' criteria for each example, but so far these hardly exist. There are, however, various experimental tests (especially using phenomena of ambiguity to separate the bottom-up signal from top-down or sideways cognitive errors), and selective losses of the visual agnosias may help to reveal perceptual classes (Humphreys & Riddock 1987a,b;Sacks 1985).…”

Section: L a S S I F Y I Ng I L Lu S Ion Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge in perception and illusion

Gregory

1997

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

421

259

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Following Hermann von Helmholtz, who described visual perceptions as unconscious inferences from sensory data and knowledge derived from the past, perceptions are regarded as similar to predictive hypotheses of science, but are psychologically projected into external space and accepted as our most immediate reality. There are increasing discrepancies between perceptions and conceptions with science's advances, which makes it hard to define ‘illusion’. Visual illusions can provide evidence of object knowledge and working rules for vision, but only when the phenomena are explained and classified. A tentative classification is presented, in terms of appearances and kinds of causes. The large contribution of knowledge from the past for vision raises the issue: how do we recognize the present, without confusion from the past. This danger is generally avoided as the present is signalled by real–time sensory inputs— perhaps flagged by qualia of consciousness.

show abstract

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Cited by 128 publications

References 0 publications

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time

Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology.

Knowledge in perception and illusion

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About