Localization without content. A tactile analogue of 'blind sight'
J. Paillard, F. Michel and G. Stelmach
We examined the ability of a patient, who had a cerebral lesion involving
the left posterior hemisphere, to identify and to localize stimuli applied
to her "deafferented" right upper limb. We observed a functional
dissociation between localization and identification in both performance
and subjective report. This finding may be a tactual analogue of "blind
sight."