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Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review

Experimental Brain Research volume 209, pages 473–479 (2011)Cite this article

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Blindsight is classically defined as residual visual capacity, e.g., to detect and identify visual stimuli, in the total absence of perceptual awareness following lesions to V1. However, whereas most experiments have investigated what blindsight patients can and cannot do, the literature contains several, often contradictory, remarks about remaining visual experience. This review examines closer these remarks as well as experiments that directly approach the nature of possibly spared visual experiences in blindsight.

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Morten Overgaard was supported by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

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    Morten Overgaard

  2. CNRU, MindLab, Hammel Neurorehabilitation and Research Center, Aarhus University, Noerrebrogade 44, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

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Overgaard, M. Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review. Exp Brain Res 209, 473–479 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2578-2

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Keywords

  • Blindsight
  • Consciousness
  • Experience
  • Primary visual cortex