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Restoring a rudimentary form of vision in the blind – Medical Xpress
Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience…
Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) show that newly developed high-resolution implants in the visual cortex make it possible to recognize artificially induced shapes and percepts. The findings were published in Science on 3 December.
The idea of stimulating the brain via an implant to generate artificial visual percepts is not new and dates back to the 1970s. However,…
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