CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the neurological phenomenon. For other uses, see Blindsight (disambiguation) . Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex , also known as the primary visual cortex or V1, to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see. [1] The term was coined by Lawrence Weiskrantz and his colleagues in a paper published in Brain [2] in 1974. A similar paper in which the discriminatory capacity of a cortically blind patient had been studied was published in Nature [3] in 1973. The majority of studies on blindsight are conducted on patients who are hemianopic, that is to say blind in only one half of their visual field . Following the destruction of the striate cortex, patients are asked to detect, localize, a...