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People who are #blind from birth never develop #schizophrenia – what this tells us about the #psychiatric condition

In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn’t quite add up. Hector #Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in adulthood, and #psychologist Sydell #Braverman were studying the #psychological lives of blind people when they stumbled upon an intriguing pattern ...

#MentalHealth #ScienceMatters #medical #brain #sighted #sight #research

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RE: https://disabled.social/@vlrny/116540812062829077

Not voting, as I was born #disabled

In the #blind community, I was #sighted, although I was born with #cataracts and have always been #LegallyBlind. My dad was blind, and navigated everywhere with his #whitecane. He ws part of an #advocacy #organiztion, and he traveled around the #US by air. His sister, my Aunt Buffy, was a #COBOL #programmer for Sears in #Chicago. She took me to her work once. We rode the #El with her #GuideDog, Ginger.

This meant that it was tough to get away with "Blind kids can't. . ." unless I'd actually *tried*..

#RepresentationMatters.

Ok, question for all my #sighted friends on here. Why are you guys seemingly obsessed with app icons? Apple announced their new Creator Studio bundle last week, and everyone is upset because the app icons look bad I guess? Like why do you care, it's like me getting mad because the app name is stupid or something. I don't get it.

EU projects:

#SIGHTED: reStoring sIGHt wiTh a neuroprosthEsis for the blinD (2025-2027) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101212687

#POSITIONED: PrOstheSIs to resTore vIsiOn iN thE blind https://neurotech-nl.com/project/positioned/ "fountain probe"

Cf. John Pezaris' work at https://sight2blind.org and his TEDx talk on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29aKusFQ83A

For some context, we are very much interested in words, and also games and other couple enriching activities that can make our relationship warmer and deeper.
Do also suggest movies and documentaries that are great tow watch together. Any Recommendations and suggestions are much appreciated.

#blind #sighted #games #couple #dating #ldr #blindGames #Audiogames #online (2/2)

#Phosphoenix awarded EIC Transition grant https://www.phosphoenix.nl/phosphoenix-awarded-eic-transition-grant/ €2.5-million for their neural prosthesis project: #SIGHTED; brain implant, #BCI #NeuroTech

Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of #blind and #sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based #echolocation training http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae239 Would be fun to encode truly visual information in sound and then see what happens, no? Sensory substitution.

#Blind and #PartiallySighted people on Mastodon and the Fediverse use special apps called “screen readers” that read text out loud, so they can tell what is on the screen.

There are many things that #sighted people can do to make their posts more accessible to people using #Screen Readers.

It is all fine. And also there are #SpeechToText apps, allowing people dictate their posts. But wouldn't it be nice to have a #VoiceMessages available as well? In a way similar to instant communicators? It could work as a #ServerSide #plugin or in a client. Perhaps somebody is already working on it?
How do I make posts more accessible to blind people on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

So #sighted people. My mind is blown. I just heard of a commentator telling me they just saw something out of their left eye. You all can look through individual eyes and see different things and focus your individual eye on something you're looking for? That's a real neat ability. I'm #blind so I hope you don't mind me asking.

Similar object shape representation encoded in the inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex of #sighted and #early #blind people https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001930 "#ILOTC selectively implements shape representation independently of visual experience"; #blindness #neuroscience

#I #just #realized #how #to #fix #fediverse #search #oversight #with #regard #to #the #exceptionally #short #sighted #and #unnecessarily #limiting #not #being #able #to #search #with #a #definition #of #search #unchanged #since #the #dawn #of #time #FollowMeForMoreFediverseTips #someone #write #us #a #hashtag #inserter!?

Does visual experience influence arm #proprioception and its lateralization? Evidence from passive matching performance in #congenitally-#blind and #sighted adults https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030439402300294X

Once many #sighted people wear #AR #headsets or #glasses with cameras, it won't be stigmatizing anymore for #blind people to wear such devices - it makes #blindness invisible.

(PhD thesis) #Body #perception and #brain #plasticity in #blind and #sighted individuals https://openarchive.ki.se/xmlui/handle/10616/48562 by Dominika Radziun.

Scientists discover anatomical changes in the brains of the newly #sighted https://news.mit.edu/2023/scientists-discover-anatomical-changes-brains-newly-sighted-0501 "Following #cataract #removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought"; #blind #neural #plasticity #neuroscience

(LinkedIn, 2016) #Braille for the #Sighted https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/braille-sighted-gerald-cohen-md-facc-fase/ by Gerald Cohen

Overlapping but separate number representations in the intraparietal sulcus - Probing format- and modality-independence in #sighted #Braille readers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223000436

@TheQuinbox Quin, I really just want to learn more about your world. #Sighted navigation is easy for me to take for granted; multidimensional projections onto surfaces are not. Yet you have unified them brilliantly. I love your conception of what you encounter in the #world.

Hey, #blind #mastodon users, does anyone know of a way to read #visual #capchass maybe? I can't for the life of me figure anything out, and I have nobody #sighted around who can help. #accessible #accessibility

Neural dynamics of human echolocation https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10619/presentation/82910 by Haydée Garcia-Lazaro and Santani Teng (@echodislocation) at #SfN22; #sighted vs #blind; EEG decoding: decoding rises after first click despite chance performance in sighted controls; #echolocation #neuroscience

sometimes, it's tough being #blind in a #sighted world. other days, it cn be a real surprise