Look up: Blindsight

1. Blindsight
   Some patients who are effectively blind because of brain damage can carry out tasks which appear to be impossible unless they can see the objects. For instance they can reach out and grasp an object, accurately describe whether a stick is vertical or horizontal, or post a letter through a narrow slo...
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2. Blindsight
   The term describing any residual visual abilities following damage to either the geniculo-striate pathway and-or cortical area 17. Such residual abilities are fairly rudimentary aspects of vision such as the automatic shifting of gaze towards a light, and their effects are typically unconscious. [Further details and demonstration.]
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3. Blindsight
   clinically describes patients with bilateral damage to V1, in which they deny being able to see any visual stimulus even though on formal testing they are capable of localizing visual targets accurately
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4. Blindsight
   (from the article `Literature`) ...Katherine Mansfield Award for her short story `Plane Sailing,` 45 years after her father, prolific author C.K. Stead, received the prize. Veteran ...
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5. Blindsight
   `Blindsight` is a phenomenon in which people who are perceptually work=The New York Times |date=December 22, 2008 |first=Benedict |last=Carey |authorlink=Benedict Carey |location=work=BBC News |date=December 22, 2008 |location=accessdate=2008-12-25-->--> In Type 1 blindsight subjects have no awarene...
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6. Blindsight
   (novel) `Blindsight` is a novel by Robin Cook. Like most of Cook`s other work, it is a medical thriller. This story introduces New York City pathologist Laurie Montgomery as being new to the medical examiner`s office. She uncovers a series of drug overdoses and gangland-style murders w...
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7. Blindsight
   (film) `Blindsight` is a 2006 Documentary film directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Sybil Robson Orr for Robson Entertainment. It premiered at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the category Real to Reel. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas,...
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8. Blindsight
   (science fiction novel) `Blindsight` is a hard science fiction novel by Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. On 29 March 2007, it was nominated for the Hugo Award in the accessdate=2008-10-03-->--> Watts has also released the novel online under the by-nc-sa Creative Commons lic...
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