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Damage to the neocortex is generally understood to result in blindness. Studies of some patients who have suffered from this form of blindness have, nevertheless, revealed that they can discriminate certain types of visual events within their blind field. However, patients do so without being aware of this ability: they think they are only guessing. This phenomenon has been termed blindsight by Professor Weiskrantz and his collaborators, who were among the first to describe it. It has attracted considerable interest among neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers, who see possible implications for theories of perception and for consciousness. This now classic book, first published in 1986, gives an account of research over the number of years into a particular case blindsight, together with a discussion of the historical and neurological background. A other cases reported by other investigators and a number of theoretical and practical issues and implications are reviewed. All neuroscientists and psychologists with an interest in the phenomena will welcome this reissued version.

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title Blindsight A Case Study and Implications Oxford Psychology Series - photo 1

title:Blindsight : A Case Study and Implications Oxford Psychology Series ; No.12
author:Weiskrantz, Lawrence.
publisher:Oxford University Press
isbn10 | asin:0198521928
print isbn13:9780198521921
ebook isbn13:9780585258096
language:English
subjectBlind, Visual perception.
publication date:1990
lcc:BF241
ddc:152.14
subject:Blind, Visual perception.
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Blindsight
A Case Study and Implications
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OXFORD PSYCHOLOGY SERIES
Editors
Nicholas J. Mackintosh Timothy Shallice
Daniel Schacter Anne Treisman Lawrence Weiskrantz
1. The neuropsychology of anxiety: an enquiry into the functions of septohippocampal system Jeffrey A. Gray
2. Elements of episodic memory Endel Tulving
3. Conditioning and associative learning Nicholas J. Mackintosh
4. Visual masking: an integrative approach Bruno G. Breitmeyer
5. The musical mind: the cognitive psychology of music John Sloboda
6. Elements of psychophysical theory Jean-Claude Falmagne
7. Animal intelligence Edited by Lawrence Weiskrantz
8. Response times: their role in inferring elementary mental organization R. Duncan Luce
9. Mental representations: a dual coding approach Allan Paivio
10. Memory, imprinting, and the brain Gabriel Horn
11. Working memory Alan Baddeley
12. Blindsight: a case study and implications Lawrence Weiskrantz
13. Profile analysis D. M. Green
14. Spatial vision R. L. DeValois and K. K. DeValois
15. The neural and behavioural organization of goal-directed movements Marc Jeannerod
16. Visual pattern analysers Norma V. Graham
17. Cognitive foundations of musical pitch analysis C. L. Krumhansl
18. Perceptual and associative learning G. Hall
19. Implicit learning and tacit knowledge A. S. Reber
20. Neuromotor mechanisms in human communication D. Kimura
21. The frontal lobes and voluntary action R. E. Passingham
22. Classification and cognition W. Estes
23. Vowel perception and production B. D. Rosner and J. B. Pickering
24. Visual stress A. Wilkins
25. Electrophysiology of mind Edited by M. D. Rugg and M. G. H. Coles
26. Attention and memory: an integrated framework N. Cowan
27. The visual brain in action A. D. Milner and M. A. Goodale
28. Perceptual consequences of cochlear damage B. J. C. Moore
29. Binocular vision and stereopsis Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers
30. The measurement of sensation Donald Laming
31. Conditioned taste aversion: memory of a special kind Jan Bures, Federico Bermdez-Rattoni, and Takashi Yamamoto
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Blindsight
A Case Study and Implications
L. Weiskrantz
University of Oxford
OXFORD PSYCHOLOGY SERIES NO. 12
CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD
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Published in the United States
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
L. Weiskrantz, 1986
First published 1986
First published in paperback 1990
New paperback edition published 1998
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Weiskrantz, Lawrence.
Blindsight: a case study and implications.
(Oxford psychology series; no. 12)
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
1. BlindnessCase studies. 2. Visual cortex
DiseasesCase studies 3. NeuropsychologyCase
studies I. Title II. Series.
RE725.W45 1986 617.7 86-12515
ISBN 0-19-852192-8 (Pbk)
Printed in Great Britain by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol
Page v
PREFACE
The case study that forms a large part of this monograph was prompted by the astute observations of a clinical ophthalmic surgeon, Mr Michael Sanders, at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, who first noticed unexpected signs of residual capacity within the 'blind' visual field of D.B., and reported his observations to Dr (now Professor) Elizabeth Warrington, of the same hospital. She, in turn, drew my attention to them, and together with Mr Sanders and Professor Marshall (in whose charge D.B. was a patient at the hospital) we published our first investigations in 1974, soon after the seminal report of Ernst Pppel and his colleagues. Almost incidentally, we invented the term 'blindsight'. The name caught on, and unwittingly became attached not only to findings with D.B. but also, in other groups' studies, to a variety of aspects of residual vision in 'blind' fields caused by cortical brain damage, especially when there is a corresponding lack of awareness of the visual capacity by the patient. Perhaps the name has also contributed to the ease of reference and debate by experimental psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers of mind. Meanwhile, our research with D.B. continued for several years but much of it has remained unpublished until now. The time seems ripe, perhaps, to draw our corpus of findings together in one place, and to attempt to set them and the issues that emerge from them in the perspective of neurological findings and of other contemporary work.
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