Blindsight - Seeing Without Awareness. The act of attending has frequently been equated with visual awareness. One of the first tasks was to test exactly what blindsight patients are capable of without their conscious visual awareness – and the results have been quite remarkable. Category Film & Animation; Show more Show less. But researchers had hints that TN might exhibit blindsight, a weird ability to respond to visual information despite having no conscious knowledge of seeing anything. Loading... Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Clinical Neuroanatomy Seminars 1,796 views Dr Amy Brodtmann - Visual syndromes after stroke: Cortical blindness and blindsight - Duration: 32:54. People with blindsight consistently deny awareness of items in front of them, but they are capable of amazing feats, which demonstrate that, in some sense, they must be able to see them. We examined this relationship in ‘blindsight’: a condition in which the latter is absent or diminished as a …