Visual Plasticity: Blindsight Bridges Anatomy and Function in the Visual System

Marco Tamietto; Maria Concetta Morrone

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.026

Visual Plasticity: Blindsight Bridges Anatomy and Function in the Visual System

Curr Biol. 2016 Jan 25;26(2):R70-R73. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.026.

Authors

Marco Tamietto¹, Maria Concetta Morrone²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical and Medical Psychology and CoRPS - Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases - Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. Electronic address: marco.tamietto@unito.it.
² Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Pisa, Italy; Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: concetta@in.cnr.it.

Abstract

Some people who are blind due to damage to their primary visual cortex, V1, can discriminate stimuli presented within their blind visual field. This residual function has been recently linked to a pathway that bypasses V1, and connects the thalamic lateral geniculate nucleus directly with the extrastriate cortical area MT.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Female
Geniculate Bodies / physiology*
Hemianopsia / pathology*
Humans
Vision, Ocular*
Visual Cortex / injuries*
Visual Pathways / physiology*

Grants and funding

338866/ERC_/European Research Council/International