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How the Brain Learns to See Biological Motion After Recovering from Visual Deprivation

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• Visual acuity stabilized in the months after treatment • Enhanced sensitivity to biological motion appears early in human development 1 and is found even in newly hatched chicks, reared… Click to show full abstract

• Visual acuity stabilized in the months after treatment • Enhanced sensitivity to biological motion appears early in human development 1 and is found even in newly hatched chicks, reared and hatched in darkness. 2 • According to studies with sight-restored subjects tested years after recovery from congenital blindness, this skill3 and its neurophysiological signatures4 are resilient to visual deprivation and spared even after long periods of blindness.

Keywords: visual deprivation; brain learns; learns see; biological motion

Journal Title: Journal of Vision
Year Published: 2019

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