Paul Azzopardi

Absolute and relative blindsight.

Consciousness and Cognition March 2015 Tarryn Balsdon, Paul Azzopardi

The concept of relative blindsight, referring to a difference in conscious awareness between conditions otherwise matched for performance, was introduced by Lau and Passingham (2006) as a way of identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) in fMRI experiments. By analogy, absolute blindsight refers to a difference between performance and awareness regardless of whether it is...