Curing blind children reveals how the brain makes sense of sight
From: New Scientist - 09/02/2015

Restoring the sight of blind children in India illuminates how we piece
together the visual world, says Pawan Sinha, founder of Project Prakash

How do the children react to restored vision?

When a child sees the world for the very first time, one might imagine it's
like the movies, with the child jumping up and down, happily yelling, "Yes, I
see this! I see that!" But that's not what happens. Once we remove the
bandages, there is a very subdued reaction in those first moments. The child
is seeing, yes, but it's a confusing mess of information. Then over a few
days there is an amazing transformation. The child becomes more confident in
their use of vision: they start to rely on it. By the time that child is
ready to head home, you will see them walking completely unaided along the
hospital corridors, sometimes running. Something is changing rapidly in those
first weeks.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730370-200-curing-blind-children-reveals-how-the-brain-makes-sense-of-sight

Links:
Pawan Sinha
http://web.mit.edu/bcs/sinha/home.html

Project Prakash
http://www.projectprakash.org