A conscious route to unconscious vision

Curr Biol. 2000 Jan 27;10(2):R64-7. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00284-0.

Abstract

Damage to the primary visual cortex can leave subjects with unconscious residual vision, or 'blindsight'. New research suggests that 'top-down' modulation by intact conscious visual processes can improve performance in the impaired visual domain, even though that domain still remains quite inaccessible to consciousness.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Vision Disorders / physiopathology*
  • Visual Cortex / physiopathology
  • Visual Pathways / physiology*
  • Visual Perception