title: Visual Plasticity: Blindsight Bridges Anatomy and Function in the Visual System.
abstract: Some people who are blind due to damage to their primary visual cortex, V1, can discriminate stimuli presented within their blind visual field. This residual function has been recently linked to a pathway that bypasses V1, and connects the thalamic lateral geniculate nucleus directly with the extrastriate cortical area MT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Medical Psychology and CoRPS - Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases - Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. Electronic address: marco.tamietto@unito.it.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamietto
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Pisa, Italy; Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: concetta@in.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Maria Concetta
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Morrone
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology*; D006423:Hemianopsia / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000293:injuries*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*
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