blindsight

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WASHINGTON: A study on monkeys has shed new light on blindsight, a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is, even when they are unable to see it.

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  • That's Moravec's hypothesis and I am inclined to believe it If we want to take the point of view that you expressed in your editorial, we might ask whether the Moravec process might run afoul of some kind of lethal blindsight (using something like the original meaning of lethal; that is, related to the effect of drinking from the River Lethe). —  Analog, March 2002
  • Preliminary tests showed TN had blindsight - the ability to detect things in the environment without being aware of seeing them. —  Signs of the Times
  • Thursday's discussion made me think of an article I recently read in the New York Times on the phenomena of "blindsight." —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • Spatial attention speeds discrimination without awareness in blindsight. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Using a subject, patient GY, with the neurological condition of "blindsight" we show that although attention may be a necessary precursor to visual awareness it is not a sufficient one. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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