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Is blindsight an effect of scattered light, spared cortex, and near-threshold vision?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John Campion ,
Richard Latto  and
Y. M. Smith
John Campion
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, England
Richard Latto
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, England
Y. M. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, England
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Abstract

Blindsight is the term commonly used to describe visually guided behaviour elicited by a stimulus falling within the scotoma (blind area) caused by a lesion of the striate cortex. Such “vision” is normally held to be unconscious and to be mediated by subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus. Blindsight is of considerable theoretical importance since it suggests that destriate man is more like destriate monkey than had been previously believed and also because it supports the classical notion of two visual systems. It is also of potential clinical importance, since it has been claimed recently that systematic practice in blindsight can lead to the recovery of normal visual function in patients with cortical lesions. From a review of the literature it is concluded that all of the phenomena of blindsight can be attributed either to light scatter into unimpaired parts of the visual field or to residual vision resulting from spared striate cortex. The possible contribution f other factors is also considered. It is concluded that blindsight studies have generally failed to control for such nonblindsight interpretations partly because of poor methodology and partly because of difficulties in defining the term “blindsight.”

Experiments were carried out to investigate the extent to which subjects can exhibit performance similar to blindsight when they are using scattered light as a cue. This was done both with hemianopic subjects (by manipulating the amount of scattered and direct light coming from a stimulus) and with normal subjects (by presenting targets within their blind spots). Good blindsight performance was observed when only scattered light was available as a cue to the subjects. It is therefore concluded that an adequate case for blindsight has not been made. It is probably impossible to demonstrate the existence of blindsight on purely behavioural grounds. What is required is the establishment of relationships between visual function and independent anatomical evidence.

Keywords

agnosiaawarenessblindsightcortical blindnesshemianopiarecovery of functionscotomasubcortical visionsuperior colliculus; vision; visual field defects
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 423 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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