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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2024

Functional blindsight and its diagnosis.

Timothy Joseph Lane, Tsan-Hon Liou, Yi-Chia Kung, Philip Tseng, Changwei W Wu

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Timothy Joseph Lane *Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Tsan-Hon Liou *Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Yi-Chia KungDepartment of Radiology, National Defense Medical Center, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Philip Tseng *Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Changwei W Wu *Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Taipei Medical University · TWInstitute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica · TWNational Defense Medical Center · TWNational Taiwan University · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Even when brain scans fail to detect a striate lesion, functional evidence for blindsight can be adduced. In the aftermath of an automobile accident, JK became blind. Results of ophthalmic exams indicated that the blindness must be cortical. Nevertheless, multiple MRI scans failed to detect structural damage to the striate cortex. Prior to the accident JK had been an athlete; after the accident he retained some athletic abilities, arousing suspicions that he might be engaged in fraud. His residual athletic abilities-e.g., hitting a handball or baseball, or catching a Frisbee-coupled with his experienced blindness, suggested blindsight. But due to the apparent absence of striate lesions, we designed a series of tasks for temporal and spatial dimensions in an attempt to detect

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akinetopsiablindsightconsciousnessfMRIhypercapnia challengeP300Riddoch Syndromeself-relatedness

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PMID38385044
PMCPMC10879618
OpenAlexW4391609373

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