A Person with Lesions in the Visual Cortex May Report

question 92

Multiple Choice

A person with lesions in the visual cortex may report not being able to see information;however,if forced to answer about an item,the person can often correctly guess the location and orientation of various objects.This suggests that some processing of visual information occurs outside of conscious awareness and is called

• A)blindsight.
• B)peripheral vision.
• C)change blindness.
• D)signal detection theory.

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