Consciousness of the first order in blindsight

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 21217-21222

  Sahraie, Arash ^a   Hibbard, Paul B ^b   Trevethan, Ceri T ^a   Ritchie, Kay L ^a   Weiskrantz, Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; BLINDSIGHT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; PERCEPTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650455957     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015652107     Document Type: Article

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