Friday, 30 December 2011

LINGUISTIC GENIUS.....TO.....PROSTHETIC EYE


Every child is a genius…….. At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. This is the core idea behind the talk  “THE LINGUISTIC GENIUS OF BABIES”  by PATRICIA KUHL.  You can access the video at this link



About 10 million people in U.S and many more worldwide are facing blindness due to diseases of retina like mutual degeneration. There are some drug treatments for this but are not effective for a vast majority of the population. There comes the relevance of a prosthetic eye. Using this scientist are trying to generate electrical pulses or ‘codes’ similar to working retina. 

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