The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain

R Kupers, P Pietrini, E Ricciardi, M Ptito - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Vision plays a central role in how we represent and interact with the world around us. The
primacy of vision is structurally imbedded in cortical organization as about one-third of the …

Blindness and consciousness: new light from the dark

P Pietrini, M Ptito, R Kupers - The Neurology of Conciousness, 2009 - Elsevier
How what we perceive is transformed into a coherent and integrated representation of the
world around us is a question that has fascinated humans since the early days. What …

Insights from darkness: what the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function

R Kupers, M Ptito - Progress in brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Vision plays a central role in how we represent and interact with the world around us.
Roughly, one-third of the cortical surface in primates is involved in visual processes. The …

Compensatory plasticity and cross-modal reorganization following early visual deprivation

R Kupers, M Ptito - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
For human and non-human primates, vision is one of the most privileged sensory channels
used to interact with the environment. The importance of vision is strongly embedded in the …

The blind brain: How (lack of) vision shapes the morphological and functional architecture of the human brain

E Ricciardi, G Handjaras… - Experimental biology and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the early days, how we represent the world around us has been a matter of
philosophical speculation. Over the last few decades, modern neuroscience, and specifically …

New light from the dark: what blindness can teach us about brain function

E Ricciardi, P Pietrini - Current opinion in neurology, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Altogether, findings from both behavioural and imaging studies indicate that the brain
functional organization is to a large extent independent from visual experience and able to …

Blindsight and unconscious vision: what they teach us about the human visual system

S Ajina, H Bridge - The Neuroscientist, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex removes the major input from the eyes to the brain,
causing significant visual loss as patients are unable to perceive the side of the world …

[HTML][HTML] Neural mechanism of blindsight in a macaque model

T Isa, M Yoshida - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Some patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) exhibit visuomotor ability,
despite loss of visual awareness, a phenomenon termed “blindsight”. We review a series of …

[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 …

Neural correlates of consciousness in humans

G Rees, G Kreiman, C Koch - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
The directness and vivid quality of conscious experience belies the complexity of the
underlying neural mechanisms, which remain incompletely understood. Recent work has …