Is blindsight just degraded normal vision?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 413-416

  Weiskrantz, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Degraded vision; Hemianopia; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMIANOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57749169753     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1388-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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