There were three sighted people - Simon Buxton and Ross Heavan, who run the course together, and Naomi - to feed us, help us get around and direct the 'inner journey'.
In a recent experiment, Dr. Bach-y-Rita said, six congenitally and totally blind people and six sighted people wearing blindfolds quickly adapted to the tongue pulses, processing those sensory signals in the visual cortex.
In brief, study participants consisted of nine sighted subjects (6 men, 3 women, mean age ± S.D. 48.3±21.9 years) recruited in Basel, eleven sighted subjects (2 men, 9 women, mean age ± S.D. 25.5±7.8 years) recruited in Novosibirsk, and eight subjects with no perception of light (7 men, 1 woman, mean age ± S.D. 54.6±7.4 years) recruited in Guildford.
Seven sighted (mean age 34.4 years ranging from 22 to 50) and seven early-onset blind participants (mean age 35.4 years ranging from 25 to 50) completed the two experiments.
The twelve sighted subjects were recruited from the Université de Quebec personnel and matched as closely as possible with two visually impaired groups (CBS and BRV) with respect to age, sex and education.
Reading rates in six normally sighted subjects were measured under different combinations of pixel number, window width, and angular subtense of pixel array.
In decisions on three other recent cases, the court has gone the other way.The key disability case before the court concerned two short-sighted sisters who had been turned down for jobs as pilots with United Airlines because they did not meet its corporate standards for uncorrected vision.
