People often assume that the deaf, because they live in a silent world, compensate by seeing more vividly or clearly than the hearing do. Yet scientists know little about the visual capacities of deaf people.
A new study finds that compared with hearing adults, people who have been deaf from birth display a unique pattern of activity in the brain’s visual system that may strengthen their peripheral vision.
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