Abstract
PART 1 1. Background 2. D.B.: Clinical history and early testing PART 2 3. Reaching for randomly allocated targets 4. 'Presence' versus 'Absence' 5. Visual acuity 6. Movement thresholds 7. Discrimination of orientation 8. 'Form' discrimination 9. Detection with slow rate of onset 10. The natural blind-spot (optic disc) within the scotoma 11. Left versus right eye 12. Detection of direction of contrast 13. 'Waves' 14. Matching between impaired and intact fields 15. Matching within the impaired field 16. Double associations between form and detection 17. Standard situation PART 3 Review of other cases 19. Status, issues, and implications References Author index Subject index
Keywords
BlindsightBlind spotContrast (vision)Visual fieldOrientation (vector space)Visual acuityAudiologyPsychologyOptometryOpticsMedicineOphthalmologyVisual perceptionPhysicsMathematicsNeuroscience
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Lawrence Weiskrantz
(1986).
Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications.
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