Exercises Reduce Eyes' Natural Blind Spot
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Blue eyes, smilin' at me Tobias D via Pixabay, CC0 public domain Even if you have normal vision, you have a blind spot in your retina. Usually that doesn’t affect how you perceive the world because your brain fills in the gaps. But now a team of researchers has found that eye exercises can reduce the size of that blind spot, which could help people who are blind to regain some of their vision. The study was published this week in the journal Current Biology. Your retina is the layer of cells at the back of your eyeball that is very sensitive to light. But there are no light-detecting cells in the spot where the optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. That means there’s a relatively small area in which your...