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‘Braille’ reading by a blind volunteer by visual cortex stimulation

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THE possibility of developing functional visual prostheses was supported by the pioneering case of Brindley and Lewin1,2 and confirmed by our subsequent report on two other blind patients3.

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  1. Neuroprostheses Program, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, 19 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84115

    WM H. DOBELLE, MICHAEL G. MLADEJOVSKY & JERALD R. EVANS

  2. Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84132

    T. S. ROBERTS

  3. Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University and Victoria Hospitals, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 2K3

    J. P. GIRVIN

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DOBELLE, W., MLADEJOVSKY, M., EVANS, J. et al. ‘Braille’ reading by a blind volunteer by visual cortex stimulation. Nature 259, 111–112 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259111a0

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