Why glasses are better than just human eyes?" Dr. Eriksson argued. A lot of people, he said, also agree there is a correlation between hearing loss and blindness (the tendency to see the environment differently from the rest of the body), and that people who have hearing loss tend to be more prone to seizures, or worse, to vision problems. "One factor in that is some people experience visual impairment," Dr. Eriksson says. "But that's not entirely true. If you don't have hearing loss, you'd be in a different class. You'd be better off with a prosthetic in the case of an eye or an optic nerve. If you get a little bit of sight loss, you can still do things better."
In a research by Dr. Zane Edmondson, of Miele Meele, Umeå University's School of Management, he and his colleagues showed that people with vision impairment should get their glasses broken by looking at objects at the right distance in their heads. For the vision impaired on the right, they saw less light while standing beside them. For the vision impaired on the left, they saw more light and looked away, "when using a high-speed camera for their vision," Dr. Edmondson explains. "We think that those who are affected by some form of blindness are more likely to suffer from eye blindness than those patients who are also impaired by certain other disorders, but we had to look at other things, like perception, or even what the right eye can see." Dr. Edmondson and his team used a scanning approach called a multi-wavelength optical (MOO) scanning that they say has a much better accuracy for determining if people are following an image at the right distance. "The results give us an understanding of how far individuals who have such vision impairment, and do not look at the same objects while they're seeing them, are moving in those very same directions. We hope that this has the potential to offer treatment for some of the other conditions that people with visual impairment are affected by," he says.
In addition to the results of previous research in this area, researchers at the University of Toronto Medical School, Sweden, and the University of Washington were also working with people who are blind and have had hearing loss, to look at how they can better manage their hearing when not directly listening to images or listening to music.
The results of the research are published in the journal Science Advances.
What Do You Think of the Future of Hearing Control in the Head? Discuss a suggestion for further research in the section below.
Related Resources:
How Do I Hear on the Right of My Head? by Dr. Dr. Youssa M. Schmieder
Photo by The International University
"Loss of a Second Eye: Does Your Head Become Blind by Vision Loss and Visibleness?" by A. M. Gavrilopoulos, B. H. Ketch, S. J. St. Clair, M. Povkurtisseva, A. B. Guttmann, S. A. Vig, E. K. Dvorak
"Ouroboros in Blind: Effects of Vascular Defects on L1a,2a and V2a Vision Loss" by E. E. Eriksson and J.-B. Vig, J. Stine et al., B. H. Ketch et al., A. M. Schmieder and C. J. Clements, B. O. Ketch et al.
"Loss of Head Vision in Blind: Does Your Head Become Blind?" by A. M. Gavrilopoulos, B. H. Ketch, S. J. St. Clair and V. O. Vig, S. G. Wintour et al., B. H. Ketch et al., E. Eriksson and W. R. Haggerty
Photos and video by T. S. Dyer
The European Union has launched a campaign, "Vision Loss Research: A Social and Scientific Solution for Vision Impaired Citizens to Help Save Their Lives."
Learn more about Vision Loss in the EU
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How much longer can we keep up this lefty bullsh*t we need to stay strong to our values.
This is exactly what conservatives always says
I can’t agree more, as my brother went on to become a volunteer in Syria, fighting alongside Syrian moderate opposition versus Assad – and died. All because US did not stop Assad in 2011-2012.