In ingenious experiments, monkeys with damage to the visual cortex showed blindsight. |
He discusses different kinds of deviant phenomenal models of reality such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, hallucinations and dreams. |
Since the latter pathway is still intact in the patient with blindsight, he or she can use it for reaching for the object. |
You have patients who are conscious, or who are able to make reports, but you can prove that some stimuli escaped their conscious reports, as in the case of blindsight or neglect. |
These are dreaming, the automatism of the long distance truck driver, and blindsight. |
In a second experiment, a blindsight patient was shown pictures of faces displaying happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. |