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Lawrence Weiskrantz and Martin Davies

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199233151

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233151.001.0001

On the ubiquity of conscious–unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology

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(p. 323 ) Chapter 12 On the ubiquity of conscious–unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology
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Frontiers of Consciousness
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Lawrence Weiskrantz

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233151.003.0012

This chapter discusses some examples of neuropsychological defects in which awareness is disconnected from a capacity to discriminate or to remember or to attend or to read or to speak. Some of these are prosopagnosia, acquired dyslexia, aphasia, split-brain, and blindsight.

Keywords:   awareness, prosopagnosia, acquired dyslexia, aphasia, split-brain, blindsight

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