How We See and How We Treat the Eye

"Every day we see objects, new and familiar. Amazingly, we recognize them instantly. How? How does our brain turn what our eyes see into the images we recognize? This is an important question as answering it may ultimately influence the way doctors treat patients with vision problems." So starts the National Eye Institutes post about its Project Prakash. "Nonetheless finding answers has been difficult. Learning to recognize objects begins as soon as we open our eyes after birth. So we can't recall how we learned to recognize objects, and infants are too young to communicate what they're seeing. Thus most attempts to find answers have been limited to indirect animal studies or studies on the rare blind person who gained sight later in life." Read more.