The Rosa Kuleshova Phenomenon

            In the early 1960’s, a lady named Rosa Kuleshova taught herself to read through he fingers, Not braille, but fine print of news papers, colors of pictures and be able to describe exactly what the people in the pictures were doing. No one had ever seen this before; the French called it “paraoptic ability” and Americans call “dermoptics”. How was a blind woman able to read without braille?  Could it have been the hear given off from the paper she was feeling with her fingers? They used “cool” colors to maybe to catch If that was the case and it wasn’t. She’s able to identify words on a paper through glass, she learned to discern the height and color of liquids in a tube.

Pg. 172	“If not texture, then she mush be reacting to minute differences in heat.”	Hasty Generalization Trying to figure out how Rosa is seeing with her fingers
Pg. 177	“Surely academies with fling wide their gates to these miraculous beings and forget about the plodding Rosa.”	Appeal to misleading authority Professor teaching blind kids how to also read with their finger and thinking focus will come off Rosa
Pg. 182	“These simple Soviet observations….. could be of much greater help to the world’s blind then attempting to replace braille with eyeless sight.”	Appeal to consequences It is realized that this could be the end of braille and could lead to new line of eyesight for the blind.