Zap! Magnetic tricks on conscious and unconscious vision

Authors
Publication date 2006
Journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume | Issue number 10 | 5
Pages (from-to) 193-195
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Blindsight, the remarkable capability to react to unseen visual stimuli, has thus far only been demonstrated in patients and monkeys with a lesion to primary visual cortex. A recent study by Boyer, Harrison and Ro demonstrates blindsight in normal human observers, using TMS to block visual processing. Combined with other work, this opens new vistas towards understanding mechanisms of conscious and unconscious vision.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.002
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