Blindness is just another way of seeing | Lotfi Merabet | TEDxCambridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2014
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Blindness has nothing to do with living in the dark. Behind eyes that don’t see is a brain that does see. In fact, blind people use the same visual centers of the brain that sighted people do, and can teach us more about the brain than we think, says Lotfi Merabet.
Lotfi Merabet is a neuroscientist investigating how the brain adapts to blindness. He completed his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Montréal and clinical doctorate in optometry from the New England College of Optometry followed by post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Boston University, and the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. He also obtained his Master’s degree in Public Health from Harvard University. In 2010, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary as a clinician-scientist and is currently the Director of the Laboratory for Visual Neuroplasticity and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. His work is supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute and he serves on the Board of Directors and Trustees for the Carroll Center for the Blind and the National Braille Press.
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I never knew about the research regarding people like us using our visual part of the brain even though we can’t see with our eyes! That’s fascinating!
This gives me some motivation as a partially blind person
I’m also blind
If you look at the empty half of glass, people are blind. But if you look the other half, these people are capable of other skills more than everyone else. They only need to learn using this gift.
My son is 11 years old. He was born blind. He has what's called septo-optic dysplasia. I appreciate this video and all of your work. Thank you.
I'm more afraid of losing my hearing than sight. Exposure to music in the worst times of my life, sound, music has been the most saving grace. blindness, maybe not having the imprint of the memories of sight, would spare me some of the pain. this video is very intriguing.
I'm happy to watch this video. It's about me. I've got only one impaired eyesight since my birth, it have got worse overtime, it seems that I'm like Esref Armagan. But in fact, I'm now still working as a faculty staff at a university. I'm an accountant.
This was so interesting! Molly Burke on YT has talked a lot about training that blind people do to navigate independently, and this is a whole other level of O&M
Awesome. Blindness is just the start of a new life.
This is very interesting, thank you! I am also blind.
I’m also blind
I have lost a lot of hearing and in the future may go blind. After I lost 100% of hearing in my left year I got a Cochlear implant. It took my brain 12 months to remember how to hear. I have 95% hearing from the Cochlear now in that ear. It doesn't capture all the frequencies so it is still difficult to hear low pitched talking. Music does not sound as good but the important thing is to keep going out in the world so your brain doesn't go to mush!
I’m also blind
I am blind, and have been all my life. And I wouldn't care to get my vision back!
So am I
Gandalf in Heels I think there are Braille keyboards
You're a very strong person keep strong.......
Why wouldn't you want your vision back. If you don't mind me asking? I have RP and have been struggling with my vision loss as I'm not totally blind but have severe vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa. Why would you say you don't want your vision back? I'm curious. Looking for perspective and encouragement. This Ted talk was a start. Thanks in advance!
Back? I thought you said you’ve been blind all your life, which to me means you never had vision at all. Can you clarify?
Thank you
I have a daughter that’s blind, thanks so much
Hi there, I just watched the Ted talk about how blindness is a different kind of seem. One of the frequent questions that is asked of blind people is that whether they dream, or can imagine things in their mind, or how they get around in different places. I am off and ask these questions too, so I’m glad to see that there’s finally scientific proof that just because you can’t see doesn’t mean your brain doesn’t work.😊😊 15:03
One thing that I still can’t forget, is the look in blind eyes.
Can you explain what you mean, please?
@@BraillestoneAFS I don’t even know
I was born premature in 1997 24 weeks 1 pound 6 ounces and I survived I am a miracle and Andrea bochelli is my musical influence
I was born at 24 weeks too!! I have ROP and Glaucoma but still maintained a good deal of my sight. I hope you’re doing well and feeling empowered in your life, I know how isolating it can feel sometimes.
What about deafblind people - to what extent do your findings hold or apply? Thanks
Hey! Im using the papers refered in this lecture as a reference for my PhD. Does anyone know where I can find gameplay samples of the videogames cited? AudioDoom or AbeS, either both, I would like to have an idea of how it feels to play them. Thank you!
hi!I am a student also get a lot of inspiration from this talk! i am very desired to get the paper the talker mentioned as my reference for my paper for a product design. but i cannot find the paper. can you sir share the link of the paper referer in this lecture with me? thanks a lot!
Anyone know the French writer he mentioned, where is the quotation come from? THX
Pierre Villey, "Le Monde des aveugles : Essai de psychologie"
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Hi. This is GJ. I am a blind person. I was born blind.
Yes very well said i’m vision impaired myself
And I believe you are on the money
I wonder if deafness/hearing loss is just as "scary" for people. And why or why not?
I think being deaf is less scary than being blind for most people.
I was born Half-Deaf. It definitely is Worse to have hearing loss!! What is nothing to most, is Torture for me!! Everything is either too loud or too low. No one has the patience to repeat things to you, and Music is worse since everyone else enjoys loud music and noise!! I can barely stand being in a restaurant for more than an hour, especially if it's full. Your brain is working 2-3x more than everyone else. PS: I have no aids as I have no ear drum or ear canal, no Baha either
I'd say it's just as bad
hello out there, we who are visually impaired KNOW where we are - we KNOW where we want to go - but we need to ask only because [hello maybe !] we can't read a map or, see a street sign
Only 10% blind people are totally blind. Where 90% of who are legally blind have a descent amount of usable vision.
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