Blindsight: In Every Day Life, Your Brain Sees What Your Eyes Do Not

Sunday, July 1, 2012 - 14:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Even if you are not aware of everything you take in, your eyes are sending visual information to your brain.  This unconscious seeing is evidenced in a phenomenon called "blindsight", where people have no awareness, but their brains can see - even in subjects with visual impairment, caused by damage to a part of the brain called the visual cortex.  read more

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