Google Techtalk. If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Ricard will examine the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead us to a way of looking at the mind itself based on his ...

Ben Underwood has acquired the skill of echolocation to compensate for his blindness. Human echolocation is the ability of humans to sense objects in their environment by hearing echos off those objects. This ability is used by some blind people to navigate within their environment. Human echolocation is similar in principle to active sonar ...

Blind learn to see through tongue-mounted device. Brain plasticity of visual cortex and other senses.

New understanding of the brain shows that specific funtions once associated with fixed locations within the brain can actually be 'relocated' over time, experience, and learning.