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  2. Molyneux's problem - Wikipedia

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    Prior to treatment, the subjects (aged 8 to 17) were only able to discriminate between light and dark, with two of them also being able to determine the direction of a bright light. The surgical treatments took place between 2007 and 2010, and quickly brought the relevant subject from total congenital blindness to fully seeing.

  3. Recovery from blindness - Wikipedia

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    Recovery from blindness is the phenomenon of a blind person gaining the ability to see, usually as a result of medical treatment. As a thought experiment , the phenomenon is usually referred to as Molyneux's problem .

  4. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.In the absence of treatment such as corrective eyewear, assistive devices, and medical treatment, visual impairment may cause the individual difficulties with normal daily tasks, including reading and walking. [6]

  5. Jake Gyllenhaal Discusses Being Legally Blind and Why It's ...

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    To Jake Gyllenhaal, his blindness is an acting advantage. The Road House star, 43, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how he's used his legal blindness in his acting. Gyllenhaal has ...

  6. Is time blindness real? A psychologist explains if some ...

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  7. Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia

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    The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, [3] and 4) the event must be unexpected and the failure to see the object or event must be due ...

  8. Visual agnosia - Wikipedia

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    While cortical blindness results from lesions to primary visual cortex, visual agnosia is often due to damage to more anterior cortex such as the posterior occipital and/or temporal lobe(s) in the brain. [2] There are two types of visual agnosia, apperceptive and associative. Recognition of visual objects occurs at two levels. At an ...

  9. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The first two sort of floaters may collect over the fovea (the center of vision), and therefore be more visible, when a person is lying on his or her back looking upwards. Blue field entoptic phenomenon has the appearance of tiny bright dots moving rapidly along squiggly lines in the visual field.