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In May, a team of Indian and U.S. researchers reported in the journal Science that delay in developing colour vision for children is actually important for overall vision development.
Study co-lead Dr. Priti Gupta, a cognitive neuroscientist, said they are able to explain why normal visual development happens the way it does
Dr. Priti Gupta leads the research team in India for ‘Project Prakash’, a U.S.-based initiative of IIT Delhi, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in New Delhi, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Project Prakash
Project Prakash treats and rehabilitates blind children in India.
These children helped the researchers shed light on how the brain learns to see.
Normally, a child first understands the world in greyscale.
But the first time the children at Project Prakash experienced normal vision, their eyes had developed enough to see colours as well, so they skipped the greyscale phase.
Their brain processed black and white images differently as a result
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