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  2. 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.

  3. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Those who can see their environments often do not readily perceive echoes from nearby objects, due to an echo suppression phenomenon brought on by the precedence effect. However, with training, sighted individuals with normal hearing can learn to avoid obstacles using only sound, showing that echolocation is a general human ability.

  4. Molyneux's problem - Wikipedia

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    I shall here insert a problem of that very ingenious and studious promoter of real knowledge, the learned and worthy Mr. Molineux, which he was pleased to send me in a letter some months since; and it is this:—“Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and ...

  5. How people who are blind dream - AOL

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    For sighted people, dreaming is primarily a visual A new study published in the journal Sleep Medicine focused on how the blind dream. How people who are blind dream

  6. Blindsight - Wikipedia

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    Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex, also known as the striate cortex or Brodmann Area 17. [1] The term was coined by Lawrence Weiskrantz and his colleagues in a paper published in a 1974 issue of Brain. [2]

  7. Color blind grandson and grandpa see certain colors for the ...

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    Kohen can even play sports in them. They were developed by Dr. Don Pherson and his team. They do have a bit of a back log, but are available to people for about $400. Valspar Color For The Colorblind:

  8. Visual agnosia - Wikipedia

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    If a person is unable to recognize objects because they cannot perceive correct forms of the objects, although their knowledge of the objects is intact (i.e. they do not have anomia), they have apperceptive agnosia. If a person correctly perceives the forms and has knowledge of the objects, but cannot identify the objects, they have associative ...

  9. Visual release hallucinations - Wikipedia

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    Even though people of all ages may be affected by Charles Bonnet syndrome, those within the age range of 70 to 80 are primarily affected. [1] Among older adults (> 65 years) with significant vision loss, the prevalence of Charles Bonnet syndrome has been reported to be between 10% and 40%; a 2008 Australian study found the prevalence to be 17.5 ...