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  2. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6.1 m) from an object to see it – with corrective lenses – with the same degree of clarity as a normally ...

  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. 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 ...

  5. Functional visual loss - Wikipedia

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    Cortical blindness-Cortical blindness is the total or partial loss of vision in a normal-appearing eye caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex. [7] Retrobulbar neuritis- Retrobulbar neuritis cause of visual loss with normal fundus but there will be relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) and abnormal visually evoked responses. [8]

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

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    Time blindness has garnered a lot of skepticism online, but it's real. Those who have it aren't irresponsible, according to experts, they just perceive time differently.

  7. Functional fixedness - Wikipedia

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    One study suggests that functional fixedness can be combated by design decisions from functionally fixed designs so that the essence of the design is kept (Latour, 1994). [24] This helps the subjects who have created functionally fixed designs understand how to go about solving general problems of this type, rather than using the fixed solution ...

  8. Vision rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    Vision rehabilitation (often called vision rehab) is a term for a medical rehabilitation to improve vision or low vision.In other words, it is the process of restoring functional ability and improving quality of life and independence in an individual who has lost visual function through illness or injury.

  9. Blindism - Wikipedia

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    The causes of RRBs in visually impaired children are not well understood. Two distinct theories for causes are that it is compensation for sensory and/or social deprivation, and that it is a regulatory function in response to overstimulation and/or anxiety.