Blindsight: How Brain Sees What You Do Not See

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 16:28 in Psychology & Sociology

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. Scientists now provide compelling evidence that blindsight occurs because visual information is conveyed bypassing the primary visual cortex.

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