Monday, June 4, 2012

Hear to see: New method for the treatment of visual field defects

Hear to see: New method for the treatment of visual field defects: Patients who are blind in one side of their visual field benefit from presentation of sounds on the affected side. After passively hearing sounds for an hour, their visual detection of light stimuli in the blind half of their visual field improved significantly. Neural pathways that simultaneously process information from different senses are responsible for this effect.

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