Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see

Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain’s visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism.

This on has already made it’s rounds for a while, but it bears repeating. Fascinating stuff on introspecting how the strange black black box of our visual system takes constructs the world we perceive.