Thursday 30 December 2010

Durham University, Press Release on Visual Rehab Technique

The University of Durham is developing a computer-based visual rehabilitation technique.  Click here to view the press release (May 2010).  They published a study looking at visual search and attention training in patients with hemianopia due to a range of causes.  Click here to view their research paper, published in Brain, June 2010.  There's still some way to go, but this paper raises interesting issues about different training methods, along with a discussion of the relationship between rehabilitation outcomes, visual search, reading, and visual field measurements.

Saturday 4 December 2010

Larry Weiskrantz on the discovery of "Blindsight"

In The Psychologist, April 2010, "Blindsight in Hindsight", Larry Weiskrantz describes the discovery of blindsight - visual response without conscious perception, in patients with visual cortex damage.

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Try Eye-Search, free web-based visual search training from University College London (funded by the Stroke Association).
Listening Books is a UK charity providing audiobooks for people with reading difficulty. Books can be posted on CD, downloaded, or streamed online. There is a membership fee, but it is apparently heavily subsidised.