2023-02-15: Paper Summary "The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain"
How we portray and engage with the world around us is fundamentally influenced by our sense of vision. The visual area is located in about one-third of the cortical surface of the primates. Vision loss, either at birth or much later in life, affects how we perceive the world. It is intriguing to know how the brain of sighted and blind individuals differ. In the paper "The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain," the authors Ron Kupers , Pietro Pietrini , Emiliano Ricciardi , and Maurice Ptito discuss various topics pertaining to the nature of consciousness in those without vision. This research answered an important question: What can we learn about the functional development of the human brain in physiological conditions by studying blindness? (Source: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00019 ) There are some findings from research on animals as well as from psychophysical and functional brain imaging studies ...