Yul Chang

Results The first step to show blindsight-like behavior by mice is to show that mice act blind after damage to V1, as humans do.20 Prior work with rodents did not observe substantial blindness after removal of V1, as these rodents could still detect high-contrast visual stimuli.63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,76,77 This raises the question of whether mice do not need V1 for normal vision or whether, like primates, they lose conscious vision after removal of V1 and use blindsight to maintain...