On the bright side of blindsight. Considerations from new observations of awareness in a blindsight patient.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) January 8, 2025 Beatrice De Gelder, Nicholas Humphrey, Alan J Pegna 9 citations
Blindsight refers to the ability to make accurate visual discriminations without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In this study, we present new evidence from naturalistic observations of a patient with bilateral damage to the striate cortex, who surprisingly demonstrated the ability to detect colored objects, particularly red ones. Despite the slow and effortful process, the patient reported...