Definitions for "Blindsight"
Keywords:  cortex, visual, cortical, aware, able
clinically describes patients with bilateral damage to V1, in which they deny being able to see any visual stimulus even though on formal testing they are capable of localizing visual targets accurately
The ability of a person with a lesion in the visual cortex to reach toward or guess at the orientation of objects projected on the part of the visual field that corresponds to this lesion, even though they report that they can see absolutely nothing in that part of their visual field.
A condition in which people who are blind have some spared visual capacities in the absence of any visual awareness. go to glossary index
Blindsight is a 2006 British documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. It premiered at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the category Real to Reel.