Acute requirement for the hippocampus in putatively conscious vision revealed by a mouse model of blindsight.
Current biology : CB April 20, 2026 Nikhil Bhatla, Kathryn Cheong, Sho Takahashi et al.
The phenomenon of blindsight provides a unique opportunity to uncover brain areas important for conscious vision. Patients with blindsight lose the conscious experience of seeing while still being able to detect and locate visual stimuli. Blindsight occurs after damage to the primary visual cortex (V1). Rodents are likewise able to detect and locate visual stimuli after damage to V1, though...