Parameters affecting conscious versus unconscious visual discrimination with damage to the visual cortex (V1).

When the visual (striate) cortex (V1) is damaged in human subjects, cortical blindness results in the contralateral visual half field. Nevertheless, under some experimental conditions, subjects demonstrate a capacity to make visual discriminations in the blind hemifield (blindsight), even though the...

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Main Authors: Weiskrantz, L, Barbur, J, Sahraie, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1995