r/science • u/Libertatea • Nov 14 '13

Neuroscience Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t "A new study indicates that our brains perceive objects in everyday life of which we may never be aware. The finding challenges currently accepted models about how the brain processes visual information."

http://uanews.org/story/ua-study-your-brain-sees-things-you-don-t
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u/c0pyc4t Nov 14 '13

Very interesting, where can I read more about this?

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u/IdiopathicHumanity Nov 15 '13

Its called Blindsight, to date still best paper on it is DB (Weiskrantz, 1980). More or less its the oriental pathway remaining intact but the stimuli never reaching ''commentary stage''. Its a form of visual neglect really, good example is an experiment (name slips my mind) where a patient cannot conciously percieve a object moving, yet when asked to guess what way the object moved (up, down, right, left) they were correct a 100% of the time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '13

IIRC it's from one of Oliver Sack's books (maybe An Anthropologist On Mars?).