Blindsight and consciousness

Journal/Book: Amer J Psychol. 1997; 110: 1325 S Oak St, Champaign, IL 61820. Univ Illinois Press. 1-33.

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.

Note: Article Natsoulas T, Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, Davis,CA 95616 USA

Keyword(s): VISUAL-FIELD DEFECTS; DENNETT

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