Product Description: Can we learn without consciousness? When the eminent neuropsychologist Lawrence Weiskrantz first coined the term 'blindsight' to describe a condition whereby a patient could demonstrate that they were aware of some object, yet insist that they were completely unaware of its existence, the response from some in the scientific community was extremely skeptical...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers focuses on the relation between spoken and written language processing. The comparative approach to speech and reading concerns new approaches to the development of speech and reading, the existence of non-conventional input modalities like braille reading and lip-reading, and the study of populations with specific disorders in the abilities implicated in normal speaking and reading...read more