Natasha Mitchell
speaker
24,986 appearances
297 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Jul 2018
Natasha Mitchell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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isn't a world populated with flying dogs.
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Graham Innes is Federal Human Rights and Disability Discrimination Commissioner in Australia.
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He was born blind.
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I gather you've all always seen things in colour too.
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think that colour's come from?
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What's been the reference point for it?
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aren't pink.
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But what is the sense of red for you?
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If you've never seen red, what is that contra sensation?
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Grahaminas.
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Biomedical engineer Patrick Degener is part of the Prosthetic Retina Project at Imperial College in London, where he's lecturer in neurobionics.
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Neurobionics, you say?
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Last week we heard about people born blind later recovering their sight.
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And our brain's remarkable capacity to learn how to see from scratch.
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Even for adults, our brain is more plastic than originally thought.
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It gives hope to the global effort to engineer a bionic eye or visual prosthesis, because if we were able to plant an electronic chip in the eye to do the work of the damaged retina, our plastic brain could very well learn how to make
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sense of the new electronic input.
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A number of diseases target the retina or the light sensitive cells at the back of the eye.
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In age related macular degeneration and the hereditary retinitis pigmentosa, the deterioration of sight is horrific.
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One approach Patrick Degenard's team is taking is to develop technology to enhance a person's vision as it degrades.
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