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| example of blindsight in psychology: Consciousness Lost and Found Lawrence Weiskrantz, 1999-06-03 The phenomenon of `consciousness' is intrinsically related to one's awareness of one's self, of time, and of the physical world. What, then, can be learned about consciousness from people who have suffered brain damage such as amnesia which affects their awareness? This is the question explored by Lawrence Weiskrantz, a distinguished neuropsychologist who has worked with such patients over 30 years. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Consciousness Lost and Found provides a unique perspective on one of the most challenging issues in science today. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Blindsight : A Case Study and Implications L. Weiskrantz, 1986-10-16 Studies of patients blind from damage to the neocortex have revealed that some can discriminate certain visual events within their 'blind' fields. They are not aware that they can do so, however - they think that they are only guessing. This book is an account of research into a particular case of this 'blindsight' phenomenon. It also discusses the historical and neurological background, and reviews other cases and issues. - ;Damage to a particular area of the brain - the neocortex - is generally understood to result in blindness. Studies of some patients suffering from this form of blindness have nevertheless revealed that they can discriminate certain types of visual events within their 'blind' fields. They are not aware that they can do so, however - they think that they are only guessing. This phenomenon has been termed 'blindsight'. The present book gives an account of research over a number of years into a particular case of blindsight, together with a discussion of the historical and neurological background, a review of cases reported by other investigators, and a number of theoretical and practical issues and implications. - ;PART I: Background; D.B.: Clinical history and early testing; PART II: Reaching for randomly located targets; 'Presence' versus 'absence'; Visual acuity; Movement thresholds; Discrimination of orientation; 'Form' discrimination; Detection with slow rate of onset; The natural blind-spot (optic disc) within the scotoma; Left versus right eye; Detection of direction of contrast; 'Waves'; Matching between impaired and intact fields; Matching within the impaired field; Double dissociations between form and detection; Standard situation; PART III: Review of other cases; Status, issues, and implications; References; Indexes. - |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Blindsight Matt Johnson, Prince Ghuman, 2020-05-19 Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or yellow in their logos? Or that certain stores are always having a sale? You may not be aware of these details, yet they've been influencing you all along. Every time you purchase, swipe, or click, marketers are able to more accurately predict your behavior. These days, brands know more about you than you know about yourself. Blindsight is here to change that. With eye-opening science, engaging stories, and fascinating real-world examples, neuroscientist Matt Johnson and marketer Prince Ghuman dive deep into the surprising relationship between brains and brands. In Blindsight, they showcase how marketing taps every aspect of our mental lives, covering the neuroscience of pain and pleasure, emotion and logic, fear and safety, attention and addiction, and much more. We like to think of ourselves as independent actors in control of our decisions, but the truth is far more complicated. Blindsight will give you the ability to see the unseeable when it comes to marketing, so that you can consume on your own terms. On the surface, you will learn how the brain works and how brands design for it. But peel back a layer, and you'll find a sharper image of your psychology, reflected in your consumer behavior. This book will change the way you view not just branding, but yourself, too. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Blindsight Peter Watts, 2006-10-03 Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Visual Neurosciences John Simon Werner, Leo M. Chalupa, 2004 An essential reference book for visual science. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Perplexities of Consciousness Eric Schwitzgebel, 2011-01-28 A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives. Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s researchers found that most people reported dreaming in black and white. In the 1960s, when most movies were in color and more people had color television sets, the vast majority of reported dreams contained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams. It is that we simply don't know whether or not we dream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. Drawing broadly from historical and recent philosophy and psychology to examine such topics as visual perspective, and the unreliability of introspection, Schwitzgebel finds us singularly inept in our judgments about conscious experience. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Blindsight Lawrence Weiskrantz, 2009-03-19 The first edition of Blindsight, written by Lawrence Weiskrantz was an important and highly cited account of studies of the phenomenon - Blindsight. The updated edition retains the original text of the first edition, but brings the book up to date with developments in this area in the past decade. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Beyond Evolutionary Psychology George Ellis, Mark Solms, 2018 This book presents a compelling unifying theory of which aspects of the brain are innate and which are not. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Invisible Gorilla Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons, 2011-06-07 Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain: • Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail • How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it • Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes • What criminals have in common with chess masters • Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback • Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Ravenous Brain Daniel Bor, 2012-08-28 Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science.In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and builds on the latest research to propose a new model for how consciousness works. Bor argues that this brain-based faculty evolved as an accelerated knowledge gathering tool. Consciousness is effectively an idea factory -- that choice mental space dedicated to innovation, a key component of which is the discovery of deep structures within the contents of our awareness.This model explains our brains; ravenous appetite for information -- and in particular, its constant search for patterns. Why, for instance, after all our physical needs have been met, do we recreationally solve crossword or Sudoku puzzles? Such behavior may appear biologically wasteful, but, according to Bor, this search for structure can yield immense evolutionary benefits -- it led our ancestors to discover fire and farming, pushed modern society to forge ahead in science and technology, and guides each one of us to understand and control the world around us. But the sheer innovative power of human consciousness carries with it the heavy cost of mental fragility.Bor discusses the medical implications of his theory of consciousness, and what it means for the origins and treatment of psychiatric ailments, including attention-deficit disorder, schizophrenia, manic depression, and autism. All mental illnesses, he argues, can be reformulated as disorders of consciousness -- a perspective that opens up new avenues of treatment for alleviating mental suffering.A controversial view of consciousness, The Ravenous Brain links cognition to creativity in an ingenious solution to one of science's biggest mysteries. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Active Vision John M Findlay, Iain D Gilchrist, 2003-08-07 This title focuses on vision as an active process, rather than a passive activity and provides an integrated account of seeing and looking. The authors give a thorough description of basic details of the visual and oculomotor systems necessary to understand active vision. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness Declan Smithies, 2019-08-02 What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything at all. Consciousness is the ultimate basis of all knowledge and epistemic justification. Smithies builds a sustained argument for the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness which draws on a range of considerations in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His position combines two key claims. The first is phenomenal mentalism, which says that epistemic justification is determined by the phenomenally individuated facts about your mental states. The second is accessibilism, which says that epistemic justification is luminously accessible in the sense that you're always in a position to know which beliefs you have epistemic justification to hold. Smithies integrates these two claims into a unified theory of epistemic justification, which he calls phenomenal accessibilism. The book is divided into two parts, which converge on this theory of epistemic justification from opposite directions. Part 1 argues from the bottom up by drawing on considerations in the philosophy of mind about the role of consciousness in mental representation, perception, cognition, and introspection. Part 2 argues from the top down by arguing from general principles in epistemology about the nature of epistemic justification. These mutually reinforcing arguments form the basis for a unified theory of the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness, one that bridges the gap between epistemology and philosophy of mind. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke Olivier Godefroy, Julien Bogousslavsky, 2007-01-18 The care of stroke patients has changed dramatically. As well as improvements in the emergency care of the condition, there have been marked advances in our understanding, management and rehabilitation of residual deficits. This book is about the care of stroke patients, focusing on behavioural and cognitive problems. It provides a comprehensive review of the field covering the diagnostic value of these conditions, in the acute and later phases, their requirements in terms of treatment and management and the likelihood and significance of long-term disability. This book will appeal to all clinicians involved in the care of stroke patients, as well as to neuropsychologists, other rehabilitation therapists and research scientists investigating the underlying neuroscience. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Perceptual Organization Michael Kubovy, James R. Pomerantz, 2017-03-31 Originally published in 1981, perceptual organization had been synonymous with Gestalt psychology, and Gestalt psychology had fallen into disrepute. In the heyday of Behaviorism, the few cognitive psychologists of the time pursued Gestalt phenomena. But in 1981, Cognitive Psychology was married to Information Processing. (Some would say that it was a marriage of convenience.) After the wedding, Cognitive Psychology had come to look like a theoretically wrinkled Behaviorism; very few of the mainstream topics of Cognitive Psychology made explicit contact with Gestalt phenomena. In the background, Cognition's first love – Gestalt – was pining to regain favor. The cognitive psychologists' desire for a phenomenological and intellectual interaction with Gestalt psychology did not manifest itself in their publications, but it did surface often enough at the Psychonomic Society meeting in 1976 for them to remark upon it in one of their conversations. This book, then, is the product of the editors’ curiosity about the status of ideas at the time, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists. For two days in November 1977, they held an exhilarating symposium that was attended by some 20 people, not all of whom are represented in this volume. At the end of our symposium it was agreed that they would try, in contributions to this volume, to convey the speculative and metatheoretical ground of their research in addition to the solid data and carefully wrought theories that are the figure of their research. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Sciousness Jonathan Bricklin, 2006 James's notion of sciousness or 'pure experience' is akin to Zen tathata (suchness). Japan's renowned philosopher Kitaro Nishida, in fact, used James's concept to explain tathata to the Japanese themselves. As this collection of essays makes clear, Western practioners of Zen and other nondual practices need not be spiritual vagabonds. We need, rather, to claim our inheritance from the 'father of American psychology.' |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Cognitive Psychology Michael W. Eysenck, Mark T. Keane, 2020-03-09 Widely considered to be the most comprehensive and accessible textbook in the field of Cognitive Psychology Emphasis on applied cognition with ‘in the real world’ case studies and examples Comprehensive companion website including access to Primal Pictures’ interactive 3D atlas of the brain, test simulations of key experiments, multiple choice questions, glossary flashcards and instructor PowerPoint slides Simple, clear pedagogy in every chapter to highlight key terms, case studies and further reading Updated references throughout the textbook to reflect the latest research |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Inside Psychology Pat Rabbitt, 2008-11-06 Psychology is a comparatively young science. From its origins in the psychophysics laboratories of late 19th century Germany, it made great strides throughout the 20th century, and can now be considered one of the most rapidly growing of the sciences, as evidenced by the enormous growth at both undergraduate level and research level. This book takes a step back to consider just how we got to where we are in psychology. It brings together some of the leading and most influential figures from the past 50 years, covering neuropsychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, perception, physiology and many others. Each contributor considers the path their own field has taken - both the advances, and the set-backs. They look at how their area has changed - how it might have been 'in vogue' one day, and out of fashion the next. The accounts are personal, witty, and provide a much needed stock-take of just where psychology stands at the start of the 21st century, and where it might be heading in the coming years. Highly accessible, the book will make fascinating reading for anyone at all interested in psychology and its history- from students upwards, as well as those more broadly interested in the study of the mind. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Visual Brain in Action David Milner, Mel Goodale, 2006-10-12 First published in 1995, this book presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying perception and action, proposing a broad distinction within the brain between two kinds of vision: conscious perception and unconscious 'online' vision. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Firefall Peter Watts, 2017-07-13 Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere - a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks - but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't. 'A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good' Charles Stross. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!... It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade... It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It's off the scale... F**king awesome!' Richard Morgan. 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Inattentional Blindness Arien Mack, Irvin Rock, 1998 Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it. Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing -- that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it. The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Blindspots Bruno Breitmeyer, 2010-04-12 Bruno Breitmeyer offers a fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, and minds, both see and fail to see moves, ranging first from cataracts and color blindness through blindsight, acquired dyslexia, and visual agnosias. He then uses what we've learned about the limits of our sight to illustrate the limits of our ability to mentally visualize and our ability to reason, covering everything from logical fallacies to how our motives and emotions relentlessly color the way we see the world. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Introduction to Psychology Jennifer Walinga, Charles Stangor, This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain György Buzsáki, Yves Christen, 2016-05-02 This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. The individual chapters cover several fascinating facets of contemporary neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons, mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on cognition, memory, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation, large-scale computation and consciousness. Each of these topics require appropriate levels of analyses with sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local and global networks, supplemented by models and theories to explain how different levels of brain dynamics interact with each other and how the failure of such interactions results in neurologic and mental disease. While such complex questions cannot be answered exhaustively by a dozen or so chapters, this volume offers a nice synthesis of current thinking and work-in-progress on micro-, meso- and macro- dynamics of the brain. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood Robert Melillo, Gerry Leisman, 2004-01-31 Attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, asperger's syndrome, and autism, to name but a few, may be viewed as points on a spectrum of developmental disabilities in which those points share features in common and possibly etiology as well, varying only in severity and in the primary anatomical region of dysfunctional activity. This text focuses on alterations of the normal development of the child. A working theory is presented based on what we know of the neurological and cognitive development in the context of evolution of the human species and its brain. In outlining our theory of developmental disabilities in evolutionary terms, the authors offer evidence to support the following notions: Bipedalism was the major reason for human neocortical evolution; Cognition evolved secondary and parallel to evolution of motricity; There exists an overlap of cognitive and motor symptoms; Lack of thalamo-cortical stimulation, not overstimulation, is a fundamental problem of developmental disabilities; A primary problem is dysfunctions of hemisphericity; Most conditions in this spectrum of disorders are the result of a right hemisphericity; Environment is a fundamental problem; All of these conditions are variations of the same problem; These problems are correctable; Hemisphere specific treatment is the key to success. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Seeing and Visualizing Zenon W. Pylyshyn, 2003 How we see and how we visualize: why the scientific account differs from our experience. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Phantoms in the Brain V. S. Ramachandran, 1999-08-18 Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be wired for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the big questions about consciousness and the self. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Fundamentals of Psychology Michael Eysenck, 2014-08-07 Aimed at those new to the subject, Fundamentals of Psychology is a clear and reader-friendly textbook that will help students explore and understand the essentials of psychology. This text offers a balanced and accurate representation of the discipline through a highly accessible synoptic approach, which seamlessly brings together all the various related topics. Fundamentals of Psychology combines an authoritative tone, a huge range of psychological material and an informal, analogy-rich style. The text expertly blends admirably up-to-date empirical research and real-life examples and applications, and is both readable and factually dense. The book introduces all the main approaches to psychology, including social, developmental, cognitive, biological, individual differences, and abnormal psychology, as well as psychological research methods. However, it also includes directions for more detailed and advanced study for the interested student. Fundamentals of Psychology incorporates many helpful textbook features which will aid students and reinforce learning, such as: Key-term definitions Extremely clear end-of-chapter summaries Annotated further reading sections Evaluations of significant research findings Numerous illustrations presented in attractive full color. This textbook is also accompanied by a comprehensive program of resources for both students and instructors, which is available free to qualifying adopters. The resources include a web-based Student Learning Program, as well as chapter-by-chapter lecture slides and an interactive chapter-by-chapter multiple-choice question test bank. Combining exceptional content, abundant pedagogical features, and a lively full-color design, Fundamentals of Psychology is an essential resource for anyone new to the subject and more particularly those beginning undergraduate courses. The book will also be ideal for students studying psychology within education, nursing and other healthcare professions. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Vital Lies, Simple Truths Daniel Goleman, 1985 A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness Bernard J. Baars, 1993-07-30 Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established conscious phenomena with comparable unconscious ones, such as stimulus representations known to be preperceptual, unattended or habituated. By adducing data to show that consciousness is associated with a kind of workplace in the nervous system, Baars helps clarify the problem. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Human and Machine Consciousness David Gamez, 2018-03-07 Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines. Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. It sets out a bold interpretation of consciousness that neutralizes the philosophical problems and explains how we can make scientific predictions about the consciousness of animals, brain-damaged patients and machines. Gamez interprets the scientific study of consciousness as a search for mathematical theories that map between measurements of consciousness and measurements of the physical world. We can use artificial intelligence to discover these theories and they could make accurate predictions about the consciousness of humans, animals and artificial systems. Human and Machine Consciousness also provides original insights into unusual conscious experiences, such as hallucinations, religious experiences and out-of-body states, and demonstrates how ‘designer’ states of consciousness could be created in the future. Gamez explains difficult concepts in a clear way that closely engages with scientific research. His punchy, concise prose is packed with vivid examples, making it suitable for the educated general reader as well as philosophers and scientists. Problems are brought to life in colourful illustrations and a helpful summary is given at the end of each chapter. The endnotes provide detailed discussions of individual points and full references to the scientific and philosophical literature. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Neurology of Vision and Visual Disorders , 2021-04-06 Neurology of Vision and Visual Disorders, Volume 178 in the Handbooks of Neurology series provides comprehensive summaries of recent research on the brain and nervous system. This volume reviews alterations in vision that stem from the retina to the cortex. Coverage includes content on vision and driving derived from the large amount of time devoted in clinics to determining who is safe to drive, along with research on the interplay between visual loss, attention and strategic compensations that may determine driving suitability. The title concludes with vision therapies and the evidence behind these approaches. Each chapter is co-written by a basic scientist collaborating with a clinician to provide a solid underpinning of the mechanisms behind the clinical syndromes. - Reviews the neurological underpinnings of visual perception disorders - Encompasses the cortex to the retina - Covers functional organization, electrophysiology and subcortical visual pathways - Discusses assessment, diagnosis and management of visual perception disorders - Includes international experts from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Singapore, and the UK and US |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Functions of the Brain David Ferrier, 1876 |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Echopraxia Peter Watts, 2014-08-26 Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call The Angels of the Asteroids. Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Consciousness and the Brain Stanislas Dehaene, 2014-01-30 WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Dictionary of Psychology Ray Corsini, 2016-12-05 With more than three times as many defined entries, biographies, illustrations, and appendices than any other dictionary of psychology ever printed in the English language, Raymond Corsini's Dictionary of Psychology is indeed a landmark resource. The most comprehensive, up-to-date reference of its kind, the Dictionary also maintains a user-friendliness throughout. This combination ensures that it will serve as the definitive work for years to come. With a clear and functional design, and highly readable style, the Dictionary offers over 30,000 entries (including interdisciplinary terms and contemporary slang), more than 125 illustrations, as well as extensive cross-referencing of entries. Ten supportive appendices, such as the Greek Alphabet, Medical Prescription Terms, and biographies of more than 1,000 deceased contributors to psychology, further augment the Dictionary's usefulness. Over 100 psychologists as well as numerous physicians participated as consulting editors, and a dozen specialist consulting editors reviewed the material. Dr. Alan Auerbach, the American Psychological Association's de facto dictionary expert, served as the senior consulting editor. As a final check for comprehensiveness and accuracy, independent review editors were employed to re-examine, re-review, and re-approve every entry. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision Martha J. Farah, Graham Ratcliff, 2013-04-15 This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview emphasizing the current state of knowledge and outstanding theoretical issues in the authors' area of research, along with a more in-depth report of an illustrative research project in the same area. The editors and contributors to this volume are among the most respected figures in the field of neuropsychology and perception, making the work presented here a standard-setting text and reference in that area. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Toward a Science of Consciousness II Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott, 1998 This text originates from the second of two conferences discussing the concept of consciousness. In 15 sections, this book demonstrates the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology David Groome, 1999 This is a comprehensive undergraduate textbook which provides, in a single volume, chapters on both normal cognitive function and related clinical disorder. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Mirroring People Marco Iacoboni, 2009-06-23 What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person's head—to know what they're thinking and feeling? Mind reading is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn't understand what in the brain makes it possible. This has all changed in the last decade. Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist whose work has been covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the smart cells in our brain that allow us to understand others. From imitation to morality, from learning to addiction, from political affiliations to consumer choices, mirror neurons seem to have properties that are relevant to all these aspects of social cognition. As The New York Times reports: The discovery is shaking up numerous scientific disciplines, shifting the understanding of culture, empathy, philosophy, language, imitation, autism and psychotherapy. Mirroring People is the first book for the general reader on this revolutionary new science. |
| example of blindsight in psychology: Illustrating Concepts and Phenomena in Psychology E. Leslie Cameron, Douglas A. Bernstein, 2022-08-29 This compendium of examples of psychological concepts and phenomena is designed to make it easier for both novice and experienced teachers of psychology at all levels to bring new and/or particularly illuminating examples to their lectures and other presentations. Psychology instructors know that vivid examples bring concepts to life for students, making psychology both more accessible and interesting. Having a good supply of such examples can be particularly important when, as often happens, students fail to immediately grasp particular points, especially those that are complex or difficult. Generating compelling examples can be challenging, particularly when teaching a course, such as Introductory Psychology, in which much of the material is outside one’s main area of expertise, when teaching a course for the first time, or when teaching a course that is entirely outside one’s main area of expertise. This compendium will serve as a one-stop reference that presents a topic-organized body of compelling examples that instructors can explore as they prepare their teaching materials. The examples they will find range from simple illustrations (e.g., muting an obnoxious commercial as an example of negative reinforcement), to videos (e.g., of a patient with prosopagnosia), to brief stories (e.g., about how confirmation bias led a man to dismantle a kitchen because he assumed that an electrical stove’s whining clock was a trapped kitten), to short summaries of research that illustrate a concept or phenomenon. Beyond their value for enhancing the quality and interest level of classroom lectures, the examples in this book can help teachers find ideas for engaging multiple-choice exam and quiz items. They can also serve as stimuli for writing assignments and small group discussions in which students are asked to come up with additional examples of the concept or phenomenon, or link them to other concepts or phenomena. |
Blindsight Is Qualitatively Degraded Conscious Vision
Blindsight is a neuropsychological condition defined by residual visual function following destruc-tion of primary visual cortex. This residual visual function is almost universally held to include …
Blindsight is qualitatively degraded conscious vision
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Blindsight: A conscious route to unconscious vision James …
Blindsight: A conscious route to unconscious vision James Danckert and Melvyn A. Goodale Damage to the primary visual cortex can leave subjects with unconscious residual vision, or …
Vision or Response Bias? Brain-Stimulation Induced Blindsight …
blindsight, given evidence which suggests bias may contribute to extant cases of the condition. Overgaard, Fehl, Mouridsen, Bergholt, and Cleeremans [19], for example, showed that a …
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In this paper we report some recent observations made with blindsight patient TN that we believe add novel and important information on the ongoing discussions about the role of primary …
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Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago, the phenomenon of blindsight—vision without visual …
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Blindsight offers a fascinating glimpse into the hidden depths of the human brain. It challenges our understanding of vision, consciousness, and the intricate relationship between brain activity …
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Blindsight Psychology Example Blindsight Psychology Example: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Unseen Have you ever felt like you knew something was there, even though you couldn't …
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Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight vision without …
Blind-Sight vs. Degraded-Sight: Different Measures Tell a
Blindsight patients can detect, localize, and discriminate visual stimuli in their blind field, despite denying being able to see the stimuli. However, the literature documents the cases of …
On a confusion about a function of consciousness - Ned Block
blindsight patients are capable of in the case of stimuli presented to the blind field. The idea is that when a content is not conscious - as in the blindsight patient's blind field perceptual contents, it …
Blindsight: a strange neurological condition that could help us …
Blindsight results from damage to an area of the brain called the primary visual cortex. This is one of the areas, as you might have guessed, responsible for vision. Damage to primary visual...
Affective blindsight: are we blindly led by emotions? - Beatrice …
As Heywood and Kentridge remark, the finding of covert discrimination by a blindsight subject of facial expressions presented to his blind field (‘affective blindsight’) raises the question of how …
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issues in science today Blindsight : A Case Study and Implications L. Weiskrantz,1986-10-16 Studies of patients blind from damage to the neocortex have revealed that some can …
Blindsight, Blandsight, and Blingsight: Unconscious Perception ...
Apr 21, 2025 · A classic potential example of unconscious perception is so-called blindsight. In cases of blindsight, where some visual capacities are preserved even though the V1 area of …
Blindsight: recent and historical controversies on the …
Several researchers seem to agree that blindsight might be of great importance in the ambition to find neural correlates of consciousness. However, the history of blindsight is a history of …
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Example Of Blindsight In Psychology: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight …
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Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight vision without …
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Feb 24, 2015 · Lecture/Discussion Topic: Blindsight (p. 320) Worth Video Anthology: Visual Information Processing: Elementary Concepts* Color Vision Classroom Exercises: The Color …
Alien Minds, Blindsight, and the Evolutionary Origins of …
EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 221 Will to Believe (1897), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912).“The view of mind …
A Review of The Cocktail Party Effect Barry Arons Abstract
quantifiable as, for example, physical resonances of the vocal tract. Therefore, the bulk of the ideas and experimental results presented are qualitative, and an “exact” solution to the cocktail …
Sample Literature Review - University of Vermont
This is a literature review I wrote for Psychology 109 / Research Methods I. It received an A. The assignment was to read a variety of assigned articles related to the topic of food and mood, as …
Text Messaging During Simulated Driving - University of Utah
Dec 16, 2009 · For example, according to a survey conducted by Telstra in Australia (Telstra, 2003), 30% of the respondents admitted to having sent text messages while driving a vehicle, …
Attention: Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness
where. For example, observers may fail to notice an unexpected object that enters their visual field, even if this object is large, appears for several seconds, and has important …
Update Insights into blindsight - Cell Press
the fact of blindsight allows us to ask important new questions about the neural and psychological correlates of visual awareness. If this optimism is justified, then the second 25 years of …
Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for
May 9, 1999 · Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu Received 9 May 1999, in revised form 20 June …
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BLINDSIGHT IS UNCONSCIOUS PERCEPTION - PhilArchive
phenomenon known as ‘blindsight’. The question of whether blindsight is a form of unconscious perception continues to spark fierce debate in philosophy and psychology (see, e.g., Morland …
FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY Fall 2018 (Psy383C …
3. Presentations: one or more students will discuss an assigned applied clinical example in one of the topics listed below. Each student should talk for 5 minutes introducing the example, always …
Disorders of visual perception - Journal of Neurology, …
Nov 13, 2009 · For example, visual hypoemotionality (a loss of emotional tone for visual stimuli) implies that, in some cases at least, emotions may be preserved for auditory and other …
Human blindsight is mediated by an intact geniculo …
blindsight positive patients, but was impossible to track or showed considerably impaired white matter microstructure in all blindsight negative individuals. In contrast, the two alternative …
Blindsight Reconsidered - UC Santa Barbara
blindsight. For example, hemi spherectomy patients (i.e., patients with one hemisphere surgically re moved) who have limited residual vision in their blind field have been held up as evidence …
General and specific consciousness: a first-order ... - Frontiers
content. For example, the representation“dolphins”is an English word with eight letters,but its content – dolphins – does not have any letters. Conversely, dolphins swim, but the word …
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New model shows cortical implants like Elon Musk's Blindsight are unlikely to 'exceed normal human vision' July 29 2024, by Lauren Kirschman 1/6
INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC THINKING - SAGE …
example, we can directly observe how much someone consumes in a meal by measuring the weight or calories of food consumed. However, hunger, for example, cannot be directly …
Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge - University …
were promoted in psychology from the 1960s onwards by those people who were skeptical about the existence of unconscious mental states. An objective measure uses the ability of a person …
Unconscious Perception Reconsidered - IAN PHILLIPS
tion between the kinds identified by psychology and the manifest kind perception allows us to take perceptual psychology seriously without iden-tifying perception with a psychological kind. …
Blindsight Reconsidered - UC Santa Barbara
blindsight. For example, hemi spherectomy patients (i.e., patients with one hemisphere surgically re moved) who have limited residual vision in their blind field have been held up as evidence …
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Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight vision without …
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Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight vision without …
Unit IV - Keansburg School District
The Online Psychology Laboratory (OPL) is an excellent website that has online experiments in all areas of psychology, especially sensation and perception, that students can participate in and …
Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review
The unconscious has of course played a major role in the history of psychology, certainly predating Freud’s extensive development of the concept. But in the past few years it has been …
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Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago the phenomenon of blindsight vision without …
Blindsight in man and monkey - University of Colorado …
braini0301 Brain (1997), 120, 535–559 INVITED REVIEW Blindsight in man and monkey Petra Stoerig1 and Alan Cowey2 1Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians- …
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Blindsight Psychology Example Consciousness Lost and Found Lawrence Weiskrantz,1999-06-03 The phenomenon of consciousness is intrinsically related to one s awareness of one s self of …
Awareness-related activity in prefrontal and parietal cortices …
However, the neurological condition of blindsight provides a clear counter-example(StoerigandCowey,1997,2007;Weiskrantz,2009). Patients with blindsight typically …
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Blindsight Psychology Example John Simon Werner,Leo M. Chalupa. Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its …
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY EDITED BY MARK P. ZANNA Department of Psychology University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada AMSTERDAM • BOSTON † HEIDELBERG † LONDON …
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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3: 1–23, 2004. C 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Introspection and subliminal perception THOMAS ZOEGA …
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Blindsight 5e Blindsight in 5e: Navigating the Shadows of Perception The Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (5e) system, lauded for its versatility and accessibility, ... giving a creature with …
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Blindsight Psychology Example Michael W. Eysenck,Mark T. Keane. Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its …
Blindsight revisited - UMD
Department of Experimental Psychology, University Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK Abbreviations LGN lateral geniculate nucleus MRI magnetic resonance imaging ...
Affective blindsight: are we blindly led by emotions?
blindsight’) raises the question of how this performance is achieved. AnfMRI approach should provide new evidence with regard to theactual pathways sus-taining affective blindsight, but it …
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Blindsight and Visual Awareness - ResearchGate
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION 7, 292–311 (1998) ARTICLE NO. CC980358 Blindsight and Visual Awareness1 Paul Azzopardi and Alan Cowey Department of Experimental …
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Blindsight Psychology Example David Milner,Mel Goodale. Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery …
First Impressions - University of Toronto
shows that this is not the case. For example, the concept of "blindsight" re fers to patients with damage to visual cortex whose capacity for retino optical perception is unimpaired. Although …
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Blindsight Psychology Example David Milner,Mel Goodale. Blindsight Psychology Example: Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness Jason Holt,2003-02-26 Ever since its discovery …
Structural vs judgement knowledge (1)
e.g. a thought about a thought, it is called a higher order thought. For example, if a blindsight patient looks at an object moving up, and his visual system forms a representation “An object …
Dissociations of conscious and unconscious perception in …
the neural processes mediating TMS-induced blindsight has been unclear, especially when considering sugges-tions that TMS interferes with feedback processes to V1 that mediate …
Psychological Epiphenomenalism - PhilPapers
called blindsight (Weiskrantz, 1986). When prompted, blindsight patients can identify visual objects, follow targets with their eyes or fingers, and can even successfully navigate narrow …
Attention and consciousness: two distinct brain processes
remain hidden. For example, Dehaene et al. [16] state that considerable evidence indicates that, without attention, conscious perception cannot occur. We now review evidence that argues …
