If You’re Born Blind, Do You See Black?

Close your eyes and you see darkness. But that does not mean someone born blind experiences a permanent black screen. This video follows the science of congenital blindness and brain plasticity to ask a deeper question: what happens when visual information never becomes the brain’s dominant route? Through research on Braille, blindsight, echolocation, language, temporary blindfolding, and Charles Bonnet syndrome, we explore why “seeing” is not one single process—and why the brain region we call the visual cortex can take on very different work when experience changes. #Neuroscience #BrainPlasticity #Blindness #Perception