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Residual Vision in Multiple Retinal Locations within a Scotoma: Implications for Blindsight.
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There is an important new proposal that "blindsight"-the ability to detect and identify visual stimuli by forcedchoice guessing and in the absence of conscious awareness when they fall in blind regions of the visual field-is a function of residual "islands" of undamaged visual cortex. This stands in contrast to the widely accepted view that blindsight is exclusively a function of secondary visual pathways. According to the new view, residual vision in blindsight should be patchy. Thus, when a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Journal of cognitive neuroscience
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 191-202
- Publication date:
- 1997-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1530-8898
- ISSN:
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0898-929X
- Source identifiers:
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11687
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:11687
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uuid:b5dcf95b-500c-4687-b9aa-2ed3aec54a02
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- pubs:11687
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- 1997
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