The study buoys hope that blind people could soon regain ‘functional vision’
Scientists have been experimenting with stimulating the visual cortex of the brain since 1970s in a bid to generate perceptions of shapes. However, implants have only been able to communicate a small number of so-called “artificial pixels.”
The Dutch researchers, this time, utilized a cutting-edge microchip, implantation, and production technology to create more revolutionary and stable implants.
The positive results, according to the team, could pave the way for the creation of a brain implant that could help blind people to regain “functional vision” through the assistance of computer-based signals communicating to their brains instead of their eyes.
The researchers brand this technology as a “visual prosthetic.”
Experts say these findings buoy hopes that brain implants augmenting the function of the brain when it becomes compromised will be soon available.
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