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Impact of blindness onset on the representation of sound categories in occipital and temporal cortices [PDF]

eLife, 2022
The ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) reliably encodes auditory categories in people born blind using a representational structure partially similar to the one found in vision (Mattioni et al.,2020). Here, using a combination of uni- and multivoxel
Stefania Mattioni, Mohamed Rezk, Ceren Battal, Jyothirmayi Vadlamudi, Olivier Collignon   +4 more
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ESCAPISM TECHNIQUE IN THE CONCEPTOSPHERE OF THE CATEGORY OF BLINDNESS

Освітній дискурс
Urgency of the research lies in the fact that in the measurement of variable interpretive strategies for works of art, it is important to turn to methods that would allow to characterize them comprehensively, even taking into account unpopular topics ...
Uliana Zhornokui
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THE CATEGORY OF BLINDNESS IN THE RECEPTIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (BASED ON ELEONOR PORTER’S NOVEL “DAWN”)

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Relevance of the research. The article explores the category of blindness from historical, cultural, philosophical, and literary perspectives, using the example of Eleanor Porter’s lesser-known novel “Dawn”, which has not yet been widely studied in ...
Uliana Zhornokui, Kovalenko Natalia, Lidiia Pokotylo   +2 more
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Changes in the prevalence, causes of visual impairment, and cataract service coverage in Karamoja, Uganda, between 2015 and 2023: Findings from two cross-sectional surveys. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
Two rapid assessments of avoidable blindness (RAAB) surveys were conducted in the Karamoja subregion, Uganda, in 2015 and 2023. This paper reports the observed changes in prevalence, causes of visual impairment and coverage of cataract services and ...
Gladys Atto, Emma Jolley, Stevens Bechange, Susan Kikira, Denis Erima, Ambrose Otim, Beatrice Bako, Robert Mayeku, Elizabeth Apio, Juliet Sentongo, Tesfaye Adera, Anthony Wani, Moses Kasadhakawo   +12 more
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Expectation-based blindness: Predictions about object categories gate awareness of focally attended objects [PDF]

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022
Selective attention gates access to conscious awareness, resulting in surprising failures to notice clearly visible but unattended objects (“inattentional blindness”). Here, we demonstrate that expectations can have a similar effect, even for fully attended objects (“expectation-based blindness”).
Alon Zivony, Martin Eimer
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Assessment of Knowledge of Glaucoma in General Practitioners, Resident Doctors and Interns in Anand District, Gujarat, India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: Glaucoma has been established as the second most leading cause of blindness after cataract, which is usually irreversible and accounts for 10.1% of total blindness worldwide. Glaucoma has affected 79.6 million people worldwide by 2020.
Sonal Dhruvpal Sisodia, Harsha Chetan Jani, Anuja Parikh, Priya Ishwar Hingorani   +3 more
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Simultanagnosia: Effects of semantic category and repetition blindness [PDF]

Neuropsychologia, 2008
When confronted with two identical stimuli in a very brief period of time subjects often fail to report the second stimulus, a phenomenon termed "repetition blindness". The "type-token" account attributes the phenomenon to a failure to individuate the exemplars.
H Branch, Coslett, Eunhui, Lie
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Visual impairment and blindness in the Xingu Indigenous Park – Brazil

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Most estimates of visual impairment and blindness worldwide do not include data from specific minority groups as indigenous populations. We aimed to evaluate frequencies and causes of visual impairment and blindness in a large population ...
Arthur Gustavo Fernandes, Monica Alves, Roberta Andrade e Nascimento, Natalia Yumi Valdrighi, Rafael Cunha de Almeida, Celso Takashi Nakano   +5 more
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Survey of Special Education Eligibility Criteria for the Category Visual Impairment Including Blindness

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
Introduction: Special education eligibility criteria vary across U.S. states; this study reports a systematic analysis of interstate eligibility criteria in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) category of visual impairments including blindness. Method: Eligibility criteria for all 56 U.S.
Rachel Anne Schles, Hilary E. Travers
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The impact of diabetes on visual acuity in Ethiopia, 2021.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundDiabetes mellitus is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia that results from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Glaucoma is the ocular complication of diabetic illness. In addition to this, retinopathy,
Mulu Tiruneh Asemu, Mengesha Assefa Ahunie   +1 more
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