Blindsight was first discovered in 1973 and has baffled the people who study it every since. Blindsight is the ability for blind people to detect visually the location of an object, even when they can't see it. In these few selections of studies we might be able to get a better understanding of this very strange and baffling thing.
             In the first look at blindsight Kelli Whitlock's "The mind's eye" he gives a good description of what blindsight is. He says that forty percent of the brain processes visual information and goes through a complicated task which we call vision. Then he goes on to talk about the history of blindsight and says that is was widely disputed until twenty-five years ago. The most modern test are of patients sitting in front of a large screen and lights were flashed. The patients were able to point out where the lights were. In other modern test a stick was held in front of their faces and asked if they were held horizontally or vertically. Amazingly they could guess correctly with consistency.
             Kelli Whitlock also believes that blindsight may one day be able to teach to blind people. He thinks if we can find a way to move it from subconscious to conscious thought than it can be taught. This could one day make being totally blind obsolete.
             In another study by F. Tomaiuolo, M. Ptito, C.A. Marzi, T. Paus and Aptito, titled "Blindsight in hemispherectomized patients as revealed by spatial summation across the vertical meridian" (whew!!!) they also use light studies to try and understand blindsight. In their first experiment they had four patients that had undergone cerebral hemispherectomy. The first patient, D.R., was right handed, twenty year old female with a left hemiparesis since birth. The second patient, S.E., a twenty-eight year old male who's left hemiparesis was noticed at birth. I.G. a righted handed forty-two year old female had a
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