Are there unconscious perceptual processes?

B Brogaard - Consciousness and cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
Blindsight and vision for action seem to be exemplars of unconscious visual processes.
However, researchers have recently argued that blindsight is not really a kind of …

[HTML][HTML] Why is “blindsight” blind? A new perspective on primary visual cortex, recurrent activity and visual awareness

J Silvanto - Consciousness and cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
The neuropsychological phenomenon of blindsight has been taken to suggest that the
primary visual cortex (V1) plays a unique role in visual awareness, and that extrastriate …

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 …

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 is unlike normal conscious vision: Evidence from an exclusion task

N Persaud, A Cowey - Consciousness and cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
We explored whether information processed subconsciously in blindsight is qualitatively
different from normal conscious processing. On each trial the blindsight patient GY was …

Non-visual consciousness and visual images in blindsight

B Brogaard - Consciousness and cognition, 2012 - Elsevier
In a recent response paper to Brogaard (2011a), Morten Overgaard and Thor Grünbaum
argue that my case for the claim that blindsight subjects are not visually conscious of the …

[HTML][HTML] The structure of experience, the nature of the visual, and type 2 blindsight

F Macpherson - Consciousness and Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Unlike those with type 1 blindsight, people who have type 2 blindsight have some sort of
consciousness of the stimuli in their blind field. What is the nature of that consciousness? Is it …

What is it like to have type-2 blindsight? Drawing inferences from residual function in type-1 blindsight

RW Kentridge - Consciousness and Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Controversy surrounds the question of whether the experience sometimes elicited by visual
stimuli in blindsight (type-2 blindsight) is visual in nature or whether it is some sort of non …

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 …

Blindsight: A conscious route to unconscious vision

J Danckert, MA Goodale - Current Biology, 2000 - cell.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex can leave subjects with unconscious residual vision, or
'blindsight'. New research suggests that 'top-down'modulation by intact conscious visual …