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Blindsight 

Author: Basileios Kroustallis
DOI: 10.1080/09515080500085346
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Philosophical Psychology, Volume 18, Issue 1 February 2005 , pages 31 - 43
Number of References: 52
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Abstract

Blindsight is the ability of patients with an impaired visual cortex to perform visually in their blind field without acknowledging that performance. This ability has been interpreted as a sign of the absence of phenomenal consciousness, and neuroscientific studies have extensively studied cases of it. Different proposals separate visual form recognition from motion perception, and attempt to show that either the former or the latter is solely responsible for blindsight performance. However, a review of current experimental evidence shows that a poor performance (on both form and motion) is accompanied by poor awareness. Blindsight cases do not influence the qualia debate, because they denote a severe visual performance deficit, and not because of a purportedly non-phenomenal nature of consciousness.
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