Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ability of a blind person to sense the presence of a light source.
Wiktionary
- n. The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
Etymologies
- blind + sight. Coined in a 1974 paper in the Lancet by Sanders et al. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I was not aware of "blindsight" - another point to consider as artists...how much of what we paint is from observation versus memory?”
“This ability gives rise to the term blindsight, but that is only part of the reason Blindsight was chosen as the title.”
“See another patient (Ellis-Troy) demonstrate something called blindsight, wherein a blind woman successfully reaches for an object by "predicting" its position.”
“blindsight" - the remarkable ability to respond to what his eyes can detect without knowing he can see anything at all.”
“There's a medical phenomenon called "blindsight," where people who seem to be partially or completely blind are able to respond to visual information under test conditions.”
“To take but one example: Patients whose brain damage has destroyed their sight may still display implicit "blindsight," by slipping a card into a mail slot that they cannot consciously see.”
“Again, I can see why the book is the way it is, and why the characters were chosen (to re-enforce the whole 'blindsight' angle, and I'm using blindsight not in its strict meaning, but rather referring to abilities that might be similar in nature to blindsight).”
“Magnetically induced 'blindsight' induced in healthy human volunteers.”
“This TRN-modulation hypothesis for conscious awareness provides a comprehensive rationale regarding previously reported psychological phenomena and neurological symptoms such as blindsight, neglect, the priming effect, the threshold/duration problem, and TRN-impairment resembling coma.”
“It now looks like they have their lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) - part of the thalamus in the middle of the brain - to thank for this "blindsight".”
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Chit Chat
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Duelistic
One-word oxymorons and dvandva (copulative compound (hot)) words with that contradictory, antonymic tension. Hyphens are fine, and neologisms are great, but I don't want any portmanteau words (I c...
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Aftercrimes, Geoslavery, and Thermoge...
all the words I included in this TED book.
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found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
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Ways in which my brain is somewhat br...
I compensate somehow
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Clairpotentialities
Including a short list of types of extra-sensory perception with the prefix "clair-", these extraordinary potentials of mankind may will be debunked or proved to be existing, however, they due more...
clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairalience, claircognizance, clairgustance, blindsight
Tweets
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arby Ha! Forgot to check this page/recent comments, thus proving my own point.
I suspect a gnat's attention span is less than that of a goldfish (famously reported as 3 seconds). Oct 17, 2007
reesetee Well, that's handy.
Exactly how long is the attention span of a gnat, anyway? Inquiring minds.... Oct 13, 2007
arby I try to worry about everything at once, but I have the attention span of a gnat, so I end up being a niche worrier by default. Oct 13, 2007
reesetee Oh no! Another niche worrier. Oct 13, 2007
arby Ah, recursion.
*makes mental note to worry about everyone else's worrying status* Oct 12, 2007
reesetee I think it's highly possible, arby. The brain can do amazing things.
*makes mental note to worry about chained_bear making mental note not to worry about mental note about arby driving* Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear *makes mental note not to worry about mental note about arby driving* Oct 12, 2007
arby Oh, I don't drive. I've had WAYYYYY too many accidents to feel comfortable behind the wheel for long. Although it's been suggested that a complicated system of mirrors could compensate. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear *makes mental note to look out for arby when driving*
Actually I know a couple people who have mono-vision--that is, their eyes don't function together, which makes it hard for them to perceive distance or see things in 3-D. They both function normally too. Oct 12, 2007
arby OK so I can't prove I have this, but put it this way - I estimate nearly 40% of my right field of vision is not consciously available to me (due to hemispatial neglect) and yet I can function fairly normally. It's either compensation from other parts of my brain, or the visual stimuli is still getting in there some other way. Oct 12, 2007