A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how their ...

In 2018, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier learned that three of their four children were losing their vision because of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive, incurable retinal disease. (I have ...

That moment when someone mentions a blind person, what image pops into your mind? Probably someone in dark glasses navigating with a white cane, completely unable to perceive the world around them.

I use terms like "I saw that" or "I read that" all the time but only because they are convenient words. When I say I "saw" ...

Although blind people cannot see, they often still possess the brain regions that enable vision. Does this mean that blind people can dream in visual images? In some cases, they can. A 2014 study ...