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One day after several hours together, she was asked to close her eyes and tell what her two interviewers were wearing. She was unable to do so. There is a distinction between those with hyperthymesia and those with other forms of exceptional memory , who generally use mnemonic or similar rehearsal strategies to memorize long strings of information.
May had a stem-cell transplant in his right eye in 2001 when he was 47, after 40 years of blindness. He reportedly has adapted well to his recovered vision. May still has no intuitive grasp of depth perception. As people walk away from him, he perceives them as literally shrinking in size.
One reason that Molyneux's Problem could be posed in the first place is the extreme dearth of human subjects who gain vision after extended congenital blindness. In 1971, Alberto Valvo estimated that fewer than twenty cases have been known in the last 1000 years.
A tragic photo of a baby born with only one eye and no nose has been circulating the Internet. The baby is being referred to as "baby cyclops" due to the comparisons drawn with the mythical cyclops.
In children, the most common cause is a stroke of the ventral pons. [9]Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is essentially the opposite, caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.
Image credits: cainebacon #6. Therapist: “If you were my client while you were a minor i would have absolutely called child services.” Me: “What? Why?
"Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." – illustration by Claude Allin Shepperson from "The Country of the Blind", published in The Strand Magazine, April 1904. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope ...
A U.K. woman who was told she would never have children because of a rare condition recently gave birth to twins. When Hayley Haynes was 19, she went to the doctor because she hadn't gotten her ...