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When is information represented explicitly in blindsight and cerebral achromatopsia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

R. W. Kentridge
R. W. Kentridge
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United [email protected] www.dur.ac.uk/~dps1rwk
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Abstract

Discrimination of forms defined solely by color and discrimination of hue are dissociated in cerebral achromatopsia. Both must be based on potentially explicit information derived from differentially color-sensitive photoreceptors, yet only one gives rise to phenomenal experience of color. By analogy, visual information may be used to form explicit representations for action without giving rise to any phenomenal experience other than that of making the action.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 156 - 157
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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