20/20 Magazine

Vision, the Brain, and Mobility by Linda Conlin, Pro to Pro Managing Editor

The eyes are continuously streaming real-time spatial and environmental data directly into the brain, which processes this visual information to regulate split-second motor adjustments. This seamless sensorimotor integration acts as an internal radar. Vision can improve upright stability during standing and locomotion. However, during locomotion, vision supports additional behaviors such as gait cycle modulation (one gait cycle is measured from heel-strike to heel-strike), navigation, and obstacle avoidance. Unlike during standing, vision plays many roles during locomotion, providing information for upright stability as well as body position relative to the external environment. Vision acts as the navigation radar for human locomotion, transmitting environmental information to the brain and regulating motor decisions through sensorimotor integration. When that radar is suddenly blinded or degraded, the brain loses its primary mapping tool and is forced to remodel how it processes movement to keep the body upright and stable.

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An idea… a collection… a defining encounter. These often begin when our community unites at industry gatherings such as Silmo Paris, with the shared goal of growth and innovation. Once again, SILMO welcomes the optical community to Paris this fall, marking the beginning of a new optical season. Over four days from Sept. 25 to 28 at Paris Nord Villepinte, France, exhibitors and professionals from around the world will come together to grow their business, connect, discover new trends and products, and identify the key signals that will shape tomorrow’s market.

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"How often have you said, “I didn’t see that”? But when it’s pointed out, there it is, clear as can be. A healthy eye sends visual signals about an object to a healthy brain, but we may not actually “see” the object. It could be that visual attention was directed elsewhere, called inattentional blindness. A great deal of visual processing in the brain goes on well below our conscious awareness. Consider that the eye constantly sends ever-changing images to the brain at the speed of an ethernet connection, and it makes sense that some of those images don’t enter conscious awareness."

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