14.5 Acces to Information

Question 1

Blindsight

Answer 1

refers to the phenomenon in which some patients suffering a lesion in their visual cortex can respond to visual stimuli presented in the blind part of their visual field. But these activities happen outside the realm of the consciousness of the patient.

Question 2

subliminal processing

Answer 2

of activity in the brain is defined as brain activity that is evoked by a stimulus that is below a certain threshold for awareness. When processing is subliminal, the information is inaccessible to awareness.

Question 3

scaffolding to storage

Answer 3

the ability to move from consciousnes, controlled processing, to unconsciousness, automatic processing