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Tony Ro, a neuroscientist at The City College of New York, is artificially recreating a condition called Blindsight in his lab. “Blindsight is a condition that some patients experience after having damage to the primary visual cortex in the back of their brains. What happens in these patients is they go cortically blind, yet they can still discriminate visual information, albeit without any awareness.” explains Ro. With support from the National Science Foundation, Ro is developing a clearer picture of how other parts of the brain, besides the visual cortex, respond to visual stimuli.
