"Similar abilities have been observed in monkeys, but TN’s is the first study of these abilities in humans."
Maybe it's not exactly the same thing, but quite a while ago (10-15 years) I read in a book about the brain of a patient who had similar damage in one half of the brain. Both his eyes worked, but he couldn't see on one side, and when a piece of paper was held up into his "blind spot", reading "plese stand up", he stood up, making up a rationalization for it (like "my leg felt sleepy", "I thought I heard something", etc.) I'm not even sure if that was just about one patient, maybe it was several. But at any rate, I knew this ages ago, by randomly picking it up from a book from the library -- so how is this a surprise?
I get that this is the first dedicated study of that stuff, but it surely it isn't complete news?
Maybe it's not exactly the same thing, but quite a while ago (10-15 years) I read in a book about the brain of a patient who had similar damage in one half of the brain. Both his eyes worked, but he couldn't see on one side, and when a piece of paper was held up into his "blind spot", reading "plese stand up", he stood up, making up a rationalization for it (like "my leg felt sleepy", "I thought I heard something", etc.) I'm not even sure if that was just about one patient, maybe it was several. But at any rate, I knew this ages ago, by randomly picking it up from a book from the library -- so how is this a surprise?
I get that this is the first dedicated study of that stuff, but it surely it isn't complete news?