Philosopher William Molyneux, whose wife was blind, had proposed a thought experiment in the seventeenth century about a person, blind from birth, who could tell apart a cube and a sphere by touch: If his vision were restored and he was presented with the same cube and sphere, would he be able to tell which was which by sight alone?
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Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born 1948) is an American psychologist, neuroscientist, former John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James and Dean of Social Science at Harvard University, author and educator who specializes in the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
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Project Prakash was launched in 2003 by Prof. Pawan Sinha. Since that time, members of the Sinha laboratory, including undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows, have worked with ophthalmologists in India and have conducted several studies with individuals who gained sight late in life.
