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Category: Cortical Visual Impairment

Two for Blindness and Neuroscience

From: VisionAware Blog
Categories: Cortical Visual Impairment , Reading , Stroke or Brain Trauma
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I first published these “advances in neuroscience” stories last year, but believe they remain equally relevant today. I think you’ll agree. Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Faster Than Sighted Persons? In a recent issue of Scientific American, an article by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D., entitled Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far … Continued

The Part of the Brain that Processes Visual Text May Not Require Vision After All

From: VisionAware Blog
Categories: Cortical Visual Impairment , Medical Updates , Reading
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I first published this story last year, but believe it’s equally relevant today. I think you’ll agree. Congenital Blindness, the Visual Cortex, and Language Processing Two intriguing research reports are shedding new light on the way the brain’s visual processing center functions in people who are blind. The first report, published in the Proceedings of … Continued