MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Schiller, a pioneering researcher of the visual system, has died at 92. His career included fundamental discoveries about how visual scenes and stimuli are processed from the retina through the cortical visual system.
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People learn balance as they grow – and can usually improve their balance with practice. uzhursky/iStock via Getty Images Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Are people born with good balance? – Sebastian L., age 15, Skanderborg, Denmark No one is born with the ability to ride a skateboard, surf or even stand on their tiptoes. Unlike other mammals, human beings have no balance at b