blindsight (Aniruddh Patel )

Subject: blindsight
From:    Aniruddh Patel  <apatel(at)NSI.EDU>
Date:    Wed, 30 May 2001 10:08:05 -0700

Dear List,

Is anyone aware of an audio equivalent of 'blindsight'?

Here is a definition of blindsight:

               Absence of visual awareness despite the presence of
visual
               capacity. Some brain-damaged humans retain discriminative
               capacities in portions of the visual field-manifested,
for
               example, in correct 'guesses' concerning what is there -
in
               which they report they can see nothing. (Removal of the
               visual cortex in the rhesus monkey also apparently
induces
               blindsight.)

For more info on blindsight:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindsight.html

Thanks,
Ani Patel
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Aniruddh D. Patel
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