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For many decades, neuroscientists believed there was a “critical period” in which the brain could learn to make sense of visual input, and that this window closed around the age of 6 or 7. Recent work from MIT Professor Pawan Sinha has shown tha
London, May 2: Neuroscientists for many decades assumed that the brain could learn to make sense of visual input during a critical time that ended around the age of 6 or 7.
Neuroscientists discovered anatomical changes that occur in the white matter of visual-processing areas of the brain, in children who have congenital cataracts surgically removed.
Research supports the idea that the window of brain plasticity for some visual tasks extends further than previously thought.
Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought. MIT researchers have shown that children over 7 can learn visual tasks post cataract surgery, challenging the belief that the brain's visual learning period ends at a younger age. Th