Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind? Not Necessarily, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Visual information can be processed unconsciously when the area of the brain that records what the eye sees is temporarily shut down, according to research at Rice University in Houston. The research (...) suggests the brain has more than one pathway along which visual information can be sent. For the study, the researchers induced temporary, reversible blindness lasting only a fraction of a second (...) applied to the volunteers' visual cortex -- the area at the back of the brain that processes what the eye sees - to interrupt the normal visual pathway. (...)