fubarobfusco comments on Link Sharing Thread - April '11 - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Alexandros 11 April 2011 09:03AM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 April 2011 02:46:48PM *  0 points [-]

Here's the article in Nature. The answer is the one I expected, but not the one I would have expected had I been asked a few years ago. The question is the Molyneux problem: would a person blind from birth whose sight is restored, be able to match up seen and touched objects?

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.2795.html

Comment author: Sniffnoy 12 April 2011 01:05:18AM *  2 points [-]

I see the actual article makes the important clarification that the objects they were tested with the second time around were new ones, so they really did make the whole connection within the week.