Blind people can ‘see’ letters traced directly onto their brains
Findings point to a way to bypass damaged eyes and deliver ‘sights’ directly to the brain
![man standing at a screen drawing a letter with his fingers](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/051320_LS_brain-writing-_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
After implanted electrodes stimulated this blind volunteer's visual cortex in a particular pattern, he was able to quickly perceive, and then write, the letter N.
M. Beauchamp et al/Cell 2020