I am so grateful to everyone who helped make this paper happen - from everyone who worked on the paper, our wonderful participants, the reviewing team at JNeuro and all our funding 🧠

This research shows the importance of hMT+ and the pathway connecting to it for residual vision. This suggests that these areas might be important when considering the optimal rehabilitation for individuals.

We found: 1) residual vision is variable across participants, 2) lesion size relates to residual vision, 3) lesion location relates to residual vision (especially if there is damage to the visual motion sensitive area of the brain - hMT+, or the pathway connecting to it)

Four researchers then delineated the lesions in each individual persons brain. We then worked out which areas of the brain each lesion affected, and the size of the lesion.

We asked them to complete three tasks in their blind field looking at their ability to detect contrast, motion and faces/places.

We collaborated across three research studies and included 37 participants with damage to the primary visual cortex who had homonymous visual field deficits

In this study, we wanted to look at how the location of damage and amount of damage to the brain affects whether an individual can show residual vision within their blind field