blindsight
blindsight noun: the responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
Noun
blindsight (uncountable)
- The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
- On more pointed testing Sanders and I, along with the National Hospital psychologist Elizabeth K. Warrington, discovered to our amazement that Daniel's "blind" field was not blind at all in the usual sense. . . . When objects were placed in his blind field, he made virtually no errors locating...1992, Lawrence Weiskrantz, “Unconscious Vision: The Strange Phenomenon of Blindsight,”, in The Sciences, volume 32, number 5, page 23
- Synonyms:
- agnosopsia
Synonyms of blindsight
Origin of blindsight
From blind + sight. Coined in a 1974 paper in the Lancet by Sanders et al.
Words formed from blindsight
Questions about blindsight
- What does blindsight mean?
- Blindsight means the responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
- What part of speech is blindsight?
- Blindsight is a noun.
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