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The blindsight saga

Cowey, 2010

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9287454252776986961
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Cowey A
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Experimental brain research

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Blindsight is the ability of patients with clinically blind field defects, caused by damage to the primary visual cortex V, to detect, localise and even discriminate visual stimuli that they deny seeing. Blindsight tells us much about the nature of visual processing in the absence of the …
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