Is blindsight just degraded normal vision?

L Weiskrantz - Experimental brain research, 2009 - Springer
It is a conservative and reasonable suggestion that implicit functioning, as in blindsight, is
simply a weakened, degraded form of normal functioning, especially as the parameters of …

Blindsight

P Stoerig, A Cowey - Current Biology, 2007 - cell.com
What is blindsight? The visual functions that can be elicited in response to stimuli presented
within fields of cortical blindness have become known as blindsight. The 'blind'in blindsight …

Is blindsight like normal, near-threshold vision?

P Azzopardi, A Cowey - Proceedings of the National …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
Blindsight is the rare and paradoxical ability of some human subjects with occipital lobe
brain damage to discriminate unseen stimuli in their clinically blind field defects when forced …

Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review

M Overgaard - Experimental brain research, 2011 - Springer
Blindsight is classically defined as residual visual capacity, eg, to detect and identify visual
stimuli, in the total absence of perceptual awareness following lesions to V1. However …

Blindsight is qualitatively degraded conscious vision.

I Phillips - Psychological Review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Blindsight is a neuropsychological condition defined by residual visual function following
destruction of primary visual cortex. This residual visual function is almost universally held to …

Blindsight—not an island unto itself

L Weiskrantz - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
Patients with damage to the visual cortex are typically" blind" in the half-field (hemifield) of
vision oppo-site to the side of the damage. But some human patients are able to make visual …

Blindsight: recent and historical controversies on the blindness of blindsight

M Overgaard - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The phenomenon 'blindsight'has received much interest from neuroscientists, philosophers,
and psychologists during the last decades. Several researchers seem to agree that …

The case of blindsight

L Weiskrantz - The Blackwell companion to consciousness, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Chambers Dictionary, among others, provides a concise definition: Blindsight–a condition
caused by brain damage in which a person is able to respond to visual stimuli without …

The 30th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture: Fact, artefact, and myth about blindsight

A Cowey - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Blindsight is the ability, still controversial if a vote is taken, of subjects with clinically blind
field defects to detect, localize, and discriminate visual stimuli of which the subjects say they …

The blindsight saga

A Cowey - Experimental brain research, 2010 - Springer
Blindsight is the ability of patients with clinically blind field defects, caused by damage to the
primary visual cortex V, to detect, localise and even discriminate visual stimuli that they deny …