What Do Blind People Actually See? - Facts So Romantic
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To try to understand what it might be like to be blind, think about how it “looks” behind your head.Photograph by charnsitr / ShutterstockIn 2004 Peter König made a special belt: one that always vibrated on the side of it facing north. Put on the belt and face north, and it would vibrate in the front; turn to face west and it vibrated on the right side. König, a cognitive scientist at the University Osnabrück, Germany, gave it to a man named Udo Wächter to wear as part of a pilot study. After just six weeks, Wächter had developed an amazing and much-improved sense of direction. Even in a town 100 miles away, he could immediately point to his home.You might know the direction of north at any moment, based on your surroundings, but we infer it from landmarks we see around us. We can’t sense (...)