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Nature 441, 271-272 (18 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441271a; Published online 17 May 2006
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Director, UQ Centre for Clinical Research
- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cell Biology & Physiology
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
- Kolkata India
Visual neuroscience: Look and learn
Apoorva Mandavilli1
- Apoorva Mandavilli is senior news editor for Nature Medicine.
Abstract
Prevailing wisdom says the adult brain cannot learn to see if it had no visual stimulation during childhood, but blind people in India seem to be breaking all the rules. Apoorva Mandavilli reports.
Doctors gave SK his first pair of glasses in July 2004. He had been too poor to afford a pair before — but then he was a 29-year-old blind man, what use were glasses to him?
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