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 …

[HTML][HTML] The biological function of consciousness

B Earl - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
This research is an investigation of whether consciousness—one's ongoing experience—
influences one's behavior and, if so, how. Analysis of the components, structure, properties …

Consciousness and commentaries

L Weiskrantz - International Journal of Psychology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
There are several neuropsychological syndromes in which good residual function is
retained in the absence of acknowledged awareness, among them blindsight, amnesia, and …

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 …

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] 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 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Awareness-related activity in prefrontal and parietal cortices in blindsight reflects more than superior visual performance

N Persaud, M Davidson, B Maniscalco, D Mobbs… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Many imaging studies report activity in the prefrontal and parietal cortices when subjects are
aware as opposed to unaware of visual stimuli. One possibility is that this activity simply …