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rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe) writes:
>In article <ByuDyn.L78@newcastle.ac.uk> w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
>>
>>  Has anyone come accross any good books on the subject of
>>blindsight?

>I doubt that books have been written *about* blindsight [...]
Actually, there's Blindsight, by L. Weiskrantz (Clarendon Press, NY or
Oxford U. Press; 1986), which is a case study of a man with surgical
ablation of the visual cortex. As I recall, he had lateral hemianopia.
He was able to saccade to light flashes in his blind hemisphere, and
even point to them with his hand with some accuracy, even though he
was not aware of them and insisted that he was guessing. It's
consistent with hypothesized functioning of the pre-tectal pathway.

Charles Neveu  neveu@milo.berkeley.edu
Neurology Unit
UC Berkeley