This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual proce ...

Remember Donald Rumsfeld's chestnut about the "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns?" Neuroscientists can add one more category to that list: unknown knowns, things we know without even realizing ...

I played racquetball for many years with a good friend and colleague, Mike. We hit the courts early in the morning so that we could finish in time to teach our 9:00 a.m. classes. Mike was a gifted ...

The effectiveness of Blindsight depends on various factors, including the accuracy of converting visual information into electrical impulses and the ability of the visual cortex to interpret these ...

Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately ...

Neuralink received US FDA approval for the Blindsight chip in September 2024. It was designated as a 'breakthrough device'.