the brain's subconscious vision

marco schneider sent me a link to a NY Times article about a man who had no functioning in his visual cortex due to two strokes, yet was able to navigate an obstacle course successfully and cringe at a picture of a scary face--even though he could not consciously see them.

click the title of this post to go to the article.

marco and i both speculate that there's a connection between peripheral vision (see more under the label "12 states of attention"--and the subcortical areas the researchers found this man was using.