Re: blindsight (Andy Vermiglio )

Subject: Re: blindsight
From:    Andy Vermiglio  <avermiglio(at)hei.org>
Date:    Wed, 30 May 2001 10:50:03 -0700

This sounds like a visual equivalent of Obscure Auditory Dysfunction (OAD).
OAD is characterized by a self-report of difficulty hearing in noise despite
normal audiometric thresholds. This has also been called King-Kopetzky
syndrome and discriminatory hearing loss.

Andy Vermiglio

-----Original Message-----
From:   AUDITORY  Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:] On Behalf Of
Aniruddh Patel
Sent:   Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:08 AM
To:     AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA
Subject:        blindsight

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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