Reconciling current approaches to blindsight

Morten Overgaard; Jesper Mogensen

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.08.003

Reconciling current approaches to blindsight

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Abstract

After decades of research, blindsight is still a mysterious and controversial topic in consciousness research. Currently, many researchers tend to think of it as an ideal phenomenon to investigate neural correlates of consciousness, whereas others believe that blindsight is in fact a kind of degraded vision rather than "truly blind". This article considers both perspectives and finds that both have difficulties understanding all existing evidence about blindsight. In order to reconcile the perspectives, we suggest two specific criteria for a good model of blindsight, able to encompass all evidence. We propose that the REF-CON model (. Overgaard & Mogensen, 2014) may work as such a model.

Original language	English
Journal	Consciousness and Cognition
Volume	32
Issue number	Special Issue
Pages (from-to)	33-40
Number of pages	8
ISSN	1053-8100
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.08.003
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

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