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A conscious route to unconscious vision
1Vision and Motor Control Group, Department of Psychology, Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5C2, Canada. jdancker@julian.uwo.ca.
Current Biology : CB
|February 9, 2000
Abstract:
Damage to the primary visual cortex can leave subjects with unconscious residual vision, or 'blindsight'. New research suggests that 'top-down' modulation by intact conscious visual processes can improve performance in the impaired visual domain, even though that domain still remains quite inaccessible to consciousness.