Daphne Bavelier Quotes

I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

I had cataract surgery a while back.

People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can make all the difference when driving at dusk, or in fog, in being able, for instance, to see a dog crossing the road in twilight.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Men are visual creatures.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

I see better today than I did three or five years ago.

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