When Your Eyes Can’t See, but Your Brain is Still Watching

Be one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realscience/ Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-when-the-blind-can-see-with-their-mind Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Images Courtesy of Getty Images Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering) REFERENCES [1] https://www.hunimed.eu/news/the-future-of-vision-and-eye-care/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11522/ [3] https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/brain/seeing-color [4] https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/your-brain-stops-time-when-you-blink [5] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797616672270 [6] https://zenodo.org/record/853235 [7]https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1910 [8] https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kish_how_i_use_sonar_to_navigate_the_world/transcript [9] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493986/ [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6GDNpylILE [11] https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2022/1/niab043/6539830#377635420 [12] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00901/full [13] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005769 [14] https://elifesciences.org/articles/40766 [15] https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/eyes-charles-bonnet-syndrome [16] https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/vision-tech-developments-give-glimpse-future