Sentences with phrase «people born blind»

The researchers found that the same «mapping» divisions - of - labor present in the normally sighted brain are also present in the brains of people born blind as reflected from their resting state connectivity patterns.

In fact, people born blind will probably prove the most difficult to help, because the visual system in their brains can never develop normally during infancy.

Sharing the same building plan also explains how various pathways can mutually balance out, for example when touch or hearing become highly over-developed in people born blind.

I also know that the chances of me convincing a skeptic of this is about the same as trying to explain color to a person born blind.

Imagine a person born blind awakening from the surgery that restored his sight.

Not exact matches

Dutton's book rambles through the annals of neuroscience as he interviews lawyers, con men and expert interrogators, and brings his own expertise to bear in mapping the brain's pressure points and the locations of people's psychological blind spots.

It would be effortless for him to show himself, like he seemed to do pretty regularly back in the bronze age, and he wouldn't have to send so many people either born in the wrong place or people trusting logic and science over blind faith, to eternal fire and pain and torment.

if a person is born deaf, blind, has no sensation of touch or pressure, can not taste or smell, then nothing exists for him, right?

A person is born blind.

@Maani: «A person is born blind.

He gives a reminder that he is still the true king of his people, that it is he (and not this feeble king) who commands in Israel, delivers Israel, and serves as its commander - in - chief, that it is he also (and not this king that abdicates his responsibility) who himself bears all the suffering of this people, who takes it to himself and suffers it, that finally it is on him (and not on this blind king) that there falls all the evil committed among his people.

It's really sad how ateistic people can be so boring and blind... The real enemy of spirituallity (you may call religion, if you want), is not the SCIENCE (which have its own creed that nature ends in itself) but the DOUBT.

Jesus» answer at this point is found in his statement to the persons who asked him, «Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?»

But such a view can lead a person to believe in his own natural goodness, then to being blinded to the evil that he bears in himself, then to denying the active presence of the Demon, then finally to granting the Demon free scope to dupe him.

Some people believe that eating spicy foods will cause a baby to be born blind, because the spices will burn at their eyes as they develop.

So will people who were born face - blind.

In another study on people born face - blind, Behrmann discovered a potential clue to the rest of the story.

If the connections along this face - recognizing network are too weak (the result, perhaps, of a genetic disorder), then people will be born face - blind.

People who are born face - blind, on the other hand, typically have a normal facial fusiform area.

SM failed to show any sign of perceiving face space, while the six people born face - blind showed normal face space effects.

She and her colleagues found that people born face - blind have a smaller - than - normal bundle of nerve fibers linking the facial fusiform area to other regions toward the front of the brain.

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Having not read the book, my interest was quelled by the high - concept premise: imagine a dystopic scenario where all of a sudden and quite inexplicably the people around you start going blind and, like a virus, this blindness spreads in every direction leaving a society crippled and in frantic want of quarantine; yet you keep your vision and bear witness to the theatre of the absurd that occurs in the absence of that so vital sense in others.

When Will begins to bus people in to use nanotechnology to heal them (a man who was born blind is given sight; a wheelchair - bound man is able to get up and walk), the film makes it seem, on the surface at least, that he is a potential savior.

The freedom this program gives to people who have lost their independence through loss of their sight, or never had it because they were born blind, is liberating.

The Seeing Eye was born, with the dream of making the entire world accessible to people who are blind.»

It brings some new ideas to the table, and it does have some passable production value, but it ultimately falls flat due to some boring segments, annoying enemy sections and repetitive visuals (there's just so much you can do to emulate a blind person trying to see).