Trends in Neurosciences: Is primary visual cortex necessary for visual awareness?

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Is primary visual cortex necessary for visual awareness? Oct 20th 2014, 00:00, by Juha Silvanto Influential models propose that conscious experience of extrastriate activity requires the integrity of primary visual cortex (V1). A new study challenges this view by demonstrating that when V1 is lesioned, visual qualia can be induced when transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is applied over the patients' ipsilesional hemisphere.

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