Showing posts with label Visual cortex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual cortex. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Study challenges conventional wisdom that sight-based brain sensory network is impaired with blindness


Is visual input essential to how the topographical map of the visual cortex develops in the human brain? In a new research, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and those from in Germany and USA, show that the way in which the brain organizes its visual sense remains intact even in people who are blind from birth.