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Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)

By Brian Wandell - Stanford
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  • Fall 2008
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working together to treat the many dimensions of blindness: retinal imaging, neural connections, and social psychology.

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond)
  2. Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)
  3. Brain to Computer Interfaces
  4. Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth)
  5. Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)
  6. Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)
  7. Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)