It is proposed that there are at least two categories of blindsight. One is present in visually guided behaviour in normals as well as in brain-damaged patients, while the other is present only following cortical lesions. It is also proposed that blindsight is blind because residual visual functions are banned from consciousness either when they are subserved by subcortical centres alone or when they are mediated by cortical areas that have never been exclusively associated with such functions before brain injury.
Why is blindsight blind? / Marzi C.A.. - In: JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES. - ISSN 1355-8250. - STAMPA. - 6:5(1999), pp. 12-18.
Titolo: | Why is blindsight blind? |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 1999 |
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Citazione: | Why is blindsight blind? / Marzi C.A.. - In: JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES. - ISSN 1355-8250. - STAMPA. - 6:5(1999), pp. 12-18. |
Abstract: | It is proposed that there are at least two categories of blindsight. One is present in visually guided behaviour in normals as well as in brain-damaged patients, while the other is present only following cortical lesions. It is also proposed that blindsight is blind because residual visual functions are banned from consciousness either when they are subserved by subcortical centres alone or when they are mediated by cortical areas that have never been exclusively associated with such functions before brain injury. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11562/315372 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01.01 Articolo in Rivista |