Rare cases of restored vision reveal how the brain learns to see

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 12:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Results: By testing formerly blind patients within weeks of sight restoration, Sinha and his colleagues found that subjects had very limited ability to distinguish an object from its background, identify overlapping objects, or even piece together the different parts of an object.

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