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Now I would be interested in the following experiment. Teach someone blind from birth to see with this tongue device, then restore eyesight with a surgery and t
by danbruc 10y ago
Now I would be interested in the following experiment. Teach someone blind from birth to see with this tongue device, then restore eyesight with a surgery and test if they can recognize shapes. Why? I once read about an experiment where they restored eyesight of a person blind from birth and the person was unable to identify shapes by looking at them. The subject could easily identify the shapes by touching them, knew how a round ball or the corners of a cube felt, but that was obviously not enough to figure out what a corner looks like. I wonder if the tongue device would be sufficient to provide such an understanding.
- kaybe 10y agoHow long did they wait for the person to learn?
- danbruc 10y agoThey did this immediately after the surgery, I am pretty sure the person soon learned what different shapes look like. They just wanted to test whether an understanding of shapes by touching them transfers to an understanding of what they look like. I will try to find the experiment in case you are interested in the details. EDIT: Did not find the specific study I was thinking of but this is known as Molyneux's problem [1] and there are several sources mentioned in the article. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/