Seeing without seeing? Degraded conscious vision in a blindsight patient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Overgaard, Morten ^a   Fehl, Katrin ^a,b   Mouridsen, Kim ^a   Bergholt, Bo ^a   Cleeremans, Axel ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REHABILITATION CARE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51849149042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003028     Document Type: Article

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