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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2007 | science, news, research, vision
    The Seeing Tongue: Science News Online, Sept. 1, 2001

    This is pretty fascinating. We've learned that blind people may be able to "see" with other organs wired into the brain.

    Quoted: Blind people can now use their tongues to see, albeit crudely, thanks to prototype technology that involves licking arrays of electrodes attached to video cameras.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 05 2006 | news, sight, perception, vision, color-blind

    As someone who is "color-blind" I've always been interested in what different people see and have been intrigued by the possibility that we all actually perceive different things, we've just learned to interpret them similarly. This article claims that our differences may be greater than our shared langauge. CooL!

    Quoted: A team of researchers led by psychologist Dennis Proffitt determined that the way humans interpret concrete properties of their environments is dependent on their specific physical and emotional states.

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