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."

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