Visual experience and blindsight: A methodological review
Abstract
Blindsight is classically defined as residual
visual capacity, e.g., to detect and identify visual stimuli, in
the total absence of perceptual awareness following lesions
to V1. However, whereas most experiments have investigated
what blindsight patients can and cannot do, the literature
contains several, often contradictory, remarks about
remaining visual experience. This review examines closer
these remarks as well as experiments that directly approach
the nature of possibly spared visual experiences in
blindsight.