Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T04:47:40.883Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

What is blindsight?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John Campion  and
Richard Latto
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
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Author's Response
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1985 , pp. 755 - 757
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Campion, J., Latto, R. & Smith, Y. M. (1983) Is blindsight an effect of scattered light, spared cortex, and near-threshold vision? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6:423–86. [LL]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Diaper, D. M. (1982) Central backward masking and the two-task paradigm. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge University, England. [JC]Google Scholar
Dixon, N. F. (1971) Subliminal perception. The nature of a controversy. McGraw-Hill. [JC]Google Scholar
Haber, R. N. (1983) The two visual system hypothesis loses a supporter. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6:453–54. [LL]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marcel, A. J. (1982) Is cortical blindness a problem of visual consciousness or visual function? Paper presented at the Fifth International Neuropsychological Society European Conference, Deauville, France. [LL]Google Scholar
Marzi, C. A. (1983) The neural basis of perceptual equivalence of visual stimuli in the cat. In: Advances in vertebrate neuroethology, ed. Ewert, J. P., Capranica, R. R. & Ingle, D. J.. Plenum Press. [LL]Google Scholar
Pizzamiglio, L., Antonucci, G. & Francia, A. (1984) Response of the cortically blind hemifields to a moving visual scene. Cortex 20:89–99. [LL]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Posner, M. I. (1980) Orienting of attention. The VIIth Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture. Quarterly journal of Experimental Psychology 32:3–25. [LL]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmielau, F. & Marzi, C. A. (1983) Mirror symmetric facilitation contralateral to the blind spot in normal subjects. ARVO Abstracts: 186. [LL]Google Scholar
Singer, W., Zihl, J. & Poppel, E. (1977) Subcortical control of visual thresholds in humans: Evidence for modality specific and retinotopically organized mechanisms of selective attention. Experimental Brain Research 29:173–90. [LL]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Zihl, J. (1980) “Blindsight”: Improvement of visually guided eye movements by systematic practice in patients with cerebral blindness. Neuropsychologia 18:71–77. [LL]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Zihl, J. & Werth, R. (1984) Contributions to the study of blindsight—1. Can stray light account for saccadic localisation in patients with post-geniculate defects? Neurospychologia 22:1–11. [JC]CrossRefGoogle Scholar