blindsight

American  

[blahynd-sahyt] / ˈblaɪndˌsaɪt /

noun

1. the ability of a blind person to sense accurately a light source or other visual stimulus even though unable to see it consciously.

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blindsight British  

/ ˈblaɪndˌsaɪt /

noun

1. the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage

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Etymology

Origin of blindsight

blind + sight

Example Sentences

Other scholars disagree with Block’s interpretation of blindsight data, contending that people with blindsight might possess visual awareness even if they insist that they don’t.

From Scientific American • Dec. 4, 2017

Scholars argued over the implications of conditions such as blindsight, which is caused by brain damage.

From Scientific American • Dec. 4, 2017

Researchers suspect even that when damage to the primary visual cortex presumably interrupts an instance of this kind of reverberation, patients display blindsight.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2017

The two men are similar—Humphrey helped discover blindsight, studied apes with Dian Fossey, and was, for a year, the editor of Granta—but they differ on certain points in the philosophy of consciousness.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017