Blindsight and consciousness.

Full 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.

Author information

Author/s: Natsoulas, T (T);

Affiliation: University of California, Davis, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: The American journal of psychology (Am J Psychol), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1997-; vol 110 (issue 1) : pp 1-33

Dates: Created 1997/05/21; Completed 1997/05/21; Revised 2005/11/16;

PMID: 9157792, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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