Berna Gomez (IMAGE)

University of Utah Health

Berna Gomez

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Berna Gómez of Spain spent six months working with researchers to test an experimental visual prosthesis which used an electrode array implanted into her brain’s visual cortex. Gómez has been fully blind for more than 18 years.

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John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah

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