When Blindsight is 20/20

We tend to think of physical blindness like a blindfold, but it’s much more complicated than that, and in some instances, people who have lost their vision can still "see" subconsciously. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1423698?... http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/200... https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/... https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1875... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... https://www.cell.com/current-biology/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-1... https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/ful... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.nature.com/articles/srep4... https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jne... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p... http://beatricedegelder.com/documents... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... https://neuromodec.com/what-is-transc... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...