Artificial new sense created in brain

A recent news item of this daily informs us that scientists have created a 'sixth sense” by making a brain implant through which infrared light can be detected. That means we will have to use the words "seventh sense" instead of "sixth sense" in the future to mean “intuition.”
However, researchers said that this is the first case in which such devices have been used to give an animal a completely new sense. So, it is expected that someone who is blind because of damage to their visual cortex could regain their sight using an implant in a particular part of the brain.
In fact, scientists have created a new sense in rats by allowing them to touch infrared light that mammals can not detect. They found that the nerves were responding to both touch and infrared light at the same time. This shows that the adult brain can acquire new capabilities that have never been experienced by the animal before.
So it creates strong hope that in the future human can use prosthetic devices to restore sensory modalities that have been lost, such as vision, using a different part of the brain.
We wish complete success of the research.