TY - JOUR
T1 - From blindsight to blindsmell
T2 - A mini review
AU - Zucco, Gesualdo M.
AU - Priftis, Konstantinos
AU - Stevenson, Richard J.
N1 - Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This mini-review briefly documents the phenomenon of blindsight and investigates evidence for a comparable state in olfaction. Blindsight evokes an appropriate response to a visual stimulus without any conscious visual experience or awareness of that event. For olfaction, we describe many routine aspects of perception that may occur without conscious awareness, arguably paralleling key aspects of blindsight. We then describe the limited neuropsychological evidence suggesting that people can apparently respond appropriately to odours that they cannot subjectively smell - what we would term "blindsmell".
AB - This mini-review briefly documents the phenomenon of blindsight and investigates evidence for a comparable state in olfaction. Blindsight evokes an appropriate response to a visual stimulus without any conscious visual experience or awareness of that event. For olfaction, we describe many routine aspects of perception that may occur without conscious awareness, arguably paralleling key aspects of blindsight. We then describe the limited neuropsychological evidence suggesting that people can apparently respond appropriately to odours that they cannot subjectively smell - what we would term "blindsmell".
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928475767&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/tnsci-2015-0002
DO - 10.1515/tnsci-2015-0002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28123786
AN - SCOPUS:84928475767
VL - 6
SP - 8
EP - 12
JO - Translational Neuroscience
JF - Translational Neuroscience
SN - 2081-3856
IS - 1
ER -