Blind-sight vs. degraded-sight: different measures tell a different story

C Mazzi, C Bagattini, S Savazzi - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Blindsight patients can detect, localize, and discriminate visual stimuli in their blind field,
despite denying being able to see the stimuli. However, the literature documents the cases …

Seeing without seeing? Degraded conscious vision in a blindsight patient

M Overgaard, K Fehl, K Mouridsen, B Bergholt… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Blindsight patients, whose primary visual cortex is lesioned, exhibit preserved ability to
discriminate visual stimuli presented in their “blind” field, yet report no visual awareness …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] The nature of blindsight: implications for current theories of consciousness

D Derrien, C Garric, C Sergent… - Neuroscience of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Blindsight regroups the different manifestations of preserved discriminatory visual capacities
following the damage to the primary visual cortex. Blindsight types differentially impact …

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 …

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 in action: what can the different sub-types of blindsight tell us about the control of visually guided actions?

J Danckert, Y Rossetti - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Blindsight broadly refers to the paradoxical neurological condition where patients with a
visual field defect due to a cortical lesion nevertheless demonstrate implicit residual visual …

Cueless blindsight

P Stoerig - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
The term blindsight describes the non-reflexive visual functions that remain or recover in
fields of absolute cortical blindness. As visual stimuli confined to such fields are subjectively …

The status of blindsight: Near-threshold vision, islands of cortex and the Riddoch phenomenon

RW Kentridge, CA Heywood - Journal of consciousness studies, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com
In this introductory paper, we assess the current status of blindsight--the phenomenon in
which patients with damage to their primary visual cortex retain the ability to detect …

Effectiveness of different task paradigms in revealing blindsight

M Corbetta, CA Marzi, G Tassinari, S Aglioti - Brain, 1990 - academic.oup.com
Four patients with hemianopia from posterior cerebral artery infarction were tested for
residual unconscious vision ('blindsight') in their anopic hemifield. One task tested for spatial …