Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...

I played racquetball for many years with a good friend and colleague, Mike. We hit the courts early in the morning so that we could finish in time to teach our 9:00 a.m. classes. Mike was a gifted ...

Blindsight is the phenomenon in which blind people can interact with their environments even though they can't see it. It could be navigating obstacles or even saying what is in front of them with ...

The new issue of Current Biology contains a fascinating report from a group of researchers in the Netherlands, US, UK, and Switzerland, on the subject of blindsight. Blindsight is the term for being ...

In the 1950s, an 8-year-old boy suffered a head injury in a road accident. The back left part of his brain was damaged, specifically the primary visual cortex. As a consequence, he went blind in a ...

Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof.