Residual vision in multiple retinal locations within a scotoma: Implications for blindsight

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-202

  Kentridge, R W ^a   Heywood, C A ^a   Weiskrantz, L ^a,b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCOTOMA; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030997244     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.2.191     Document Type: Article

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