The woman with a strange 'second sight'

It can be read alongside this article which explains more of the science: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150925-blindsight-the-stra...

I love the Blindsight series... had no idea they were available with Creative Commons license!

Another fiction that uses blindsight as part of the story is 'As She Climbed Across The Table' it has been a long time since I read it, but I think it was used to observe a quantum effect without being affected by [concious] observation. Didn't make much sense to me at the time but it's a book I often recommend to people that think they don't like science fiction.

"Content-light" is being rather charitable; I was going to say this article is absolutely terrible. It's like they started writing a really interesting article about this lady, then just stopped 1/3 of the way through without getting into any detail of her ability at all.

correct. blindsight is a fascinating topic in cognitive neuroscience because it is direct evidence for the existence of multiple different cognitive subsystems for visual processing, and it is fascinating that each of these subsystems has very different attributes w.r.t representation as objects of consciousness, reaction time, resolution, etc.

is it that their visual cortex doesn't work, or that it does but the pathway between the visual cortex and prefrontal cortex is severed? It seems like she can see, but her conscious mind isn't getting the data - so when she's acting automatically, her subconscious mind still picks up the visual information and reflexively acts accordingly.