How the Brain Learns to See Biological Motion After Recovering from Visual Deprivation

• Visual acuity stabilized in the months after treatment • Enhanced sensitivity to biological motion appears early in human development 1 and is found even in newly hatched chicks, reared and hatched in darkness. 2 • According to studies with sight-restored subjects tested years after recovery from congenital blindness, this skill3 and its neurophysiological signatures4 are resilient to visual deprivation and spared even after long periods of blindness.