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Vision-restoring brain implants spell breakthrough – Japan Today
Scientists are a step closer to restoring vision for the blind, after building an implant that bypasses the eyes and allows monkeys to perceive artificially induced…
Scientists are a step closer to restoring vision for the blind, after building an implant that bypasses the eyes and allows monkeys to perceive artificially induced patterns in their brains.
The technology, developed by a team at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), was described in the journal Science.
It builds on an idea first conceived decades ago: electrically stimulating the brain so it “sees” lighted dots known as phosphenes, which can also be thought of as artificial pixels.
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