Optogenetics uses light to control brain processes. It is based on light-controlled proteins such as channelrhodopsin-2, an ion channel that opens when it's exposed to light, thus activating cellular processes. In collaboration ...
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Research has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space (imagine crossing ...
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What do you think of when you think of a rainbow? If you're sighted, you're probably imagining colors arcing through the sky just after the rain.
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It's a popular idea in books and movies that blind people develop super sensitive hearing to help navigate the world around them. But a study, published August 1 in the journal iScience, shows that, in at least one situation, ...
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People who are visually impaired will often use a cane to feel out their surroundings. With training and practice, people can learn to use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes from the cane or other sounds to navigate ...
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(Medical Xpress)—A small team of researchers with Johns Hopkins University has found that vision is not necessarily a requirement for being able to perform internal math or counting tasks. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
New research from the University of Southampton has shown that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object.
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European researchers are striving to improve the technology that could one day help blind people see again.
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The combination of "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology, such as brain implants or scans that can increasingly peek inside minds, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, UNESCO warned on Thursday.
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More than 43 million people worldwide are blind. In the past 30 years, that number has increased by roughly 50%. Most blind people are born with normal vision and lose their sight over time, due to medical causes or an accident.
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