A conscious route to unconscious vision.
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.
Danckert
J
J
Vision and Motor Control Group, Department of Psychology, Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5C2, Canada. jdancker@julian.uwo.ca.
Goodale
M A
MA
D006801:Humans; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception