Blindsight

Question 1

What is blindsight?

Answer 1

Ability to respond appropriately to visual stimuli in the absence of conscious vision in patients with damage to the primary visual cortex

Question 2

What does damage to an area of V1 produced?

Answer 2

A scotoma

Question 3

What is a scotoma?

Answer 3

An area of blindness in the corresponding area of the contralateral visual field of both eyes

Question 4

What did Weiskrantz define consciousness los and found as?

Answer 4

The loss of phenomenal seeing in the contralateral half of the visual field caused by damage to the primary visual cortex but with residual capacity still present

Question 5

How many experiments did DB participate in?

Answer 5

Fucking 5

Question 6

In experiment 1 what was DB asked to do?

In experiment 2 what was DB asked to do?

What did results show?

Answer 6

DB was asked to shift his eyes from a fixation point to the position he would guess a light was flashed

Same as the first but DB had to reach with his fingers instead of his eyes

Correspondence between target and finger position especially for larger stimulus

Question 7

In experiment 2 what was DB asked to do?

Answer 7

Same as the first but DB had to reach with his fingers instead of his eyes