The 30th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture. Fact, artefact, and myth about blindsight.

Journal article

Blindsight is the ability, still controversial if a vote is taken, of subjects with clinically blind field defects to detect, localize, and discriminate visual stimuli of which the subjects say they are completely unaware--the original definition--or of which they might be aware but not in the sense of experiencing a visual percept. These two conditions are known as blindsight Types I and II. This Bartlett lecture narrates the discovery of blindsight and its mounting opposition, and it evalua...

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Authors: Cowey, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 577-609
• Publication date: 2004-05-01
• DOI: 10.1080/02724980343000882
• EISSN: 1464-0740
• ISSN: 0272-4987
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Perceptual Masking; Corpus Striatum; Signal Detection, Psychological; Humans; Visual Fields; Visual Perception; Visual Cortex