The Mind’s Eye
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Features How do we transform an ever-changing jumble of visual stimuli into the rich and coherent three-dimensional perception we know as sight? Rochester vision scientists are helping reshape our understanding of how the brain ‘sees.’ By the time James Risen arrived at the Napa Valley hotel his wife had booked in celebration of his 60th birthday, he knew something was terribly wrong. Without warning or pain, the right side of his field of vision had gone blank, like someone had pulled a curtain over the area. “I could only see about half of my normal vision,” he recalls. “It was like not getting the whole picture.” As he would soon learn from emergency room doctors, “The problem was not with my eyes. There w… Continue Reading (12 minute read)