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Meanwhile, it takes the human brain months to adapt to visual input after blindness: "This research suggests that the brain is able to adapt to getting visual i
by AiaAidan 4y ago
Meanwhile, it takes the human brain months to adapt to visual input after blindness: "This research suggests that the brain is able to adapt to getting visual input, even after 10 years of blindness. That said, it takes a little while before this ability to really process the images kicks in. Right after the second surgery, patients are getting input to the brain from their retinas, but their visual memory is still poor. After about a month, though, the brain has found ways to process this visual information, and, a year later, their brains do just about as well as those of people who had sight from birth."
Source: https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202210/what-happens-when-blind-people-get-vision-correction https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202210/....
- skybrian 4y agoAnother good example: apparently it took 10 days of wearing upside-down goggles for a researcher to see things normally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable...
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoI liked the example in the article of teachers learning to read documents upside down (presumably because they do this a lot when students are in front of them).
- KronisLV 4y ago> "After about a month, though, the brain has found ways to process this visual information, and, a year later, their brains do just about as well as those of people who had sight from birth." Hey, that's still pretty impressive! The brain starting to receive a signal that it hasn't before and still being able to eventually adapt and figure it out is wonderful!