Blindsight is sensitive to stimulus numerosity and configuration: evidence from the redundant signal effect
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- 作者：Alessia Celeghin (1) (2) (3)
Silvia Savazzi (1) (4)
Marissa Barabas (1) (5)
Matteo Bendini (6)
Carlo A. Marzi (1) (4)
1. Physiology and Psychology Section ; Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences ; University of Verona ; Verona ; Italy
2. Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases (CoRPS) ; Tilburg University ; PO Box 90153 ; 5000 LE ; Tilburg ; The Netherlands
3. Department of Psychology ; University of Torino ; Torino ; Italy
4. National Institute of Neuroscience ; Verona ; Italy
5. Division of Neuropsychology ; Department of Cognitive Neurology ; Centre for Neurology ; Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research ; Eberhard ; Karls University ; T眉bingen ; German
6. Department of Neuroradiology ; Treviso Hospital ; Treviso ; Italy - 关键词：Blindsight ; Hemianopia ; Redundancy gain ; Subcortical visual pathways ; Reaction time
- 刊名：Experimental Brain Research
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：May 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：233
- 期：5
- 页码：1617-1623
- 全文大小：646 KB
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- 刊物主题：Biomedicine
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Neurology - 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
- ISSN：1432-1106
文摘
One important, yet relatively unexplored question is whether blindsight, i.e., unconscious visually guided behavior in hemianopic patients, is endowed with basic perceptual properties such as detecting stimulus numerosity and overall configuration. Rather than a forced-choice procedure in which patients are supposed to guess about stimuli presented to the blind hemifield, we used a redundant signal effect paradigm, i.e., the speeding of simple reaction time (RT) when presenting multiple versus single similar stimuli. The presence of an effect of numerosity for the (unseen) stimuli presented to the blind field was indirectly assessed by measuring RT to bilateral versus unilateral stimuli presented to the intact hemifield. Chronic hemianopic patients were tested with unilateral or bilateral black dots, both of which could be either single or quadruple. The latter could either have a fixed spatial configuration representing a diamond or be randomly spatially assembled on every trial. Both configurations covered the same extent of visual field and had the overall same luminance. We found that a numerosity effect as a result of increasing the number of stimuli in the blind field was indeed present but only with the diamond configuration. This is a convincing evidence that this form of blindsight does not depend upon stimulus numerosity per se but is likely to be related to the presence of structured and memorized rather than meaningless changing stimuli.