It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote.

There have been several experiments that indicate people can see without using their visual cortex.

  • xain52 @lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think that this is pretty cool i didn’t know anything about it either. The brain is pretty amazing.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      6 months ago

      Isn’t that wild? They’ve tested people and a chimp so far over the last five decades, apparently investigation into the phenomenon started in the '70s.