On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jeff Bartel went:
> A few weeks ago we discussed using case studies of people with various
> types of brain damage to teach physiological psychology (especially in
> General Psychology classes). Out of curiousity, which examples do you
> tend to use?
Whenever I lectured about the dorsal and ventral streams of visual
processing in neocortex, I read liberally from the wonderful case
studies in this paper:
David N. Levine, Joshua Warach, and Martha Farah. Two visual systems
in mental imagery: dissociation of "what" and "where" in imagery
disorders due to bilateral posterior cerebral lesions. Neurology 35:
1010-1018, 1985.
I also enacted the tragicomic series of interviews with a similarly
impaired patient on pp. 273-275 of this paper:
David N. Levine. Unawareness of visual and sensorimotor defects: a
hypothesis. Brain and Cognition 13: 233-281, 1990.
Students loved this stuff. So did I.
--David Epstein
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