To: sgtbono2002
Poor thing lying blind and not knowing anything happeneing around her and so many wanted more years of this for her. Just because the vision center of her brain was blind doesn't mean her brain couldn't have compensated somewhere else.
39 posted on
06/15/2005 9:47:03 AM PDT by
Tamar1973
(Read the red! www.readthered.com)
To: Tamar1973
Just because the vision center of her brain was blind doesn't mean her brain couldn't have compensated somewhere else. Like that guy on Star Trek with the shiny hairband over his eyes?
48 posted on
06/15/2005 9:54:11 AM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Tamar1973
By all means, show us a single instance where a person with a damaged visual cortex, or even occipital lobe was able to see. You're erroneously extrapolating the possibility from known instances where other functions have been taken over by different parts of the brain. There are no known instances at all where the highly specialized visual fucntions have ever been replicated by another part of the brain.
99 posted on
06/15/2005 10:36:25 AM PDT by
Melas
(Lives in state of disbelief)
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