Procesamiento visual en ciegos.Un modelo para la posibilidad de producción de imágenes visuales sin percepción visual

  1. FERREIRA UTACILIO BÉRTOLO, HELDER MANUEL
Zuzendaria:
  1. Beatriz Antona Peñalba Zuzendaria
  2. Ana Rosa Barrio de Santos Zuzendaria

Defentsa unibertsitatea: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 2022(e)ko ekaina-(a)k 28

Epaimahaia:
  1. María Jesús Pérez Carrasco Presidentea
  2. Nuria Garzón Jiménez Idazkaria
  3. Maria Leonor Duarte de Almeida Kidea
  4. Ana Margarida Queresma Fernandes Nunes Kidea
  5. Ana Rita Godinho da Costa Nogueira Kidea

Mota: Tesia

Laburpena

Many studies have tried to understand whether the processes for visual perception and formation of mental images (visual imagery) share the same mechanisms or if they are independent and use different neural substrates. In this thesis, the most important works that provide evidence for both affirmations are reviewed. Most research has determined that activation of the primary visual areas is necessary during visual imagery.Our main objective in an effort to clarify this issue was to evaluate the ability to generate mental visual representations without visual perception, using visual content of congenitally blind (CB) subjects’ dreams and its correlation with spectral parameters of their electroencephalogram (EEG) during dream...