Plato's Cave: Blindsight

Blindsight

blindsight is a perceptual deficit whereby patients who are blind are nevertheless able to grasp moving objects without consciously perceiving the object. They posess the neural circuitry necessary to grasp the object, in the absence of the circuitry to represent a full spatial percept of that object.

Holb, Bryan & Whishaw, Ian Q. (1980) Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Second Edition. W. H. Freeman & Co. New York. Page 209.

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