Bethany Canning

 

Blindsight is the phenomenon in which the subject can respond accurately to visual stimuli without consciously perceiving the stimulus.  A blind person may be asked to say on which side of his visual field there is movement.  He does not consciously perceive any motion and so to his knowledge he is just guessing but his is correct at more often than would be accounted for by chance.  This is blindsight.  There is also evidence that a person with blindsight can navigate obstacles in their path or pick out frightening faces all without ever consciously perceiving any visual stimuli.  The prompt for this assignment given in a writing class for my major, allowed us to choose from an number of processes in the brain.  I was fascinated by blindsight when I was first introduced to it so I chose to analyze what this strange occurrence can tell us about conscious and unconscious processing in the brain.  Scientific writing not only constitutes a large portion of my college writing but it is important to me that I have the skill set to write scientific works effectively and concisely while engaging my audience.  Scientific writing most certainly does not need to be boring.  I started to learn that there are ways to give a piece drive and keep the reader’s attention even when the paper is so structured.