title: Blindsight and consciousness.
abstract: Implications for understanding consciousness are considered by focusing on two behaviors whose mutual disparity indicates blindsight. Among the topics are: (a) the basis on which people report seeing something in particular; (b) two interpretations of blindsighted subjects' forced-choice guessing as affected by perceptual judgments outside subjects' awareness or as based on "pure perceptual knowledge" of which subjects have awareness, though this "knowledge" is nonconsciously acquired; (c) whether blindsight is "behavior divorced from awareness"; and (d) an interpretation of blindsight as a matter of responding to internal occurrences.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Natsoulas
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*