PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex, also known as the striate cortex or Brodmann Area 17.

Detailed explanation-2: -Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. Scientists now provide compelling evidence that blindsight occurs because visual information is conveyed bypassing the primary visual cortex.

Detailed explanation-3: -A person is considered to be blind if they have no conscious experience of the visual world. This conscious experience is based on the flow of information from the eyes through the thalamus in the middle of the brain to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Blindsight, in some ways, can be considered a condition in which there is unawareness of awareness, although this term could be applied to certain forms of agnosia, especially anosoagnosia, or the unawareness of a body part. Furthermore, unawareness and denial of cortical visual loss is present in Anton’s syndrome.

Detailed explanation-5: -An example of blindsight would be if an object was moved to the left and a person who was looking at the object, but cortically blind, somehow knew it was moved to the left, even though they could not see it.