Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review

Morten Overgaard

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Abstract

Blindsight is classically defined as residual visual capacity, e.g., to detect and identify visual stimuli, in the total absence of perceptual awareness following lesions
to V1. However, whereas most experiments have investigated what blindsight patients can and cannot do, the literature contains several, often contradictory, remarks about remaining visual experience. This review examines closer
these remarks as well as experiments that directly approach the nature of possibly spared visual experiences in blindsight.
Original languageEnglish
JournalExperimental Brain Research
Volume209
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)473-479
Number of pages7
ISSN0014-4819
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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