Study explains why the brain can robustly recognize images, even without color
The findings also reveal why identifying objects in black-and-white images is more difficult for individuals who were born blind and had their sight restored.
The findings also reveal why identifying objects in black-and-white images is more difficult for individuals who were born blind and had their sight restored.
Open-source software by MIT MAD Fellow Jonathan Zong and others in the MIT Visualization Group reveals online graphics’ embedded data in the user’s preferred degree of granularity.
Study on blind patients who recovered their sight suggests rethinking the belief that babies learn to recognize human movement through visual exposure.
Neuroscientists find that the ability to imagine spatial structures improves dramatically after blind children’s sight is restored.
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
Inexpensive hand-held device developed at MIT could detect cataracts even at the earliest stages.
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
Study of blind children in India helps answer a 300-year-old philosophical question.
In people born blind, brain regions that usually process vision can tackle language.
Study of blind patients supports the idea that there is a period early in a person’s development when brain regions can switch functions.
Simple, low-cost device that affixes to a cell phone could provide quick eye tests throughout the developing world.
Led by electrical engineering professor John Wyatt, team develops retinal implant that could help restore useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people