sensory substitution


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sensory substitution

a technique in which one sense, for example, touch, is used to retrain perceptual centers with lost sensors, for example, balance, in rehabilitation.
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This new multisensory perspective on such aids (called sensory substitution devices) could make tasks that were previously attention-consuming much easier, allowing nonsighted people to acquire a new sensory functionality similar to vision.
Seeing Sound to Assist The Blind
The device depends on sensory substitution which involves feeding information from one sense into another.
New device translates words into vibrations for deaf
Washington, March 11 ( ANI ): A new study has revealed that blind people will be able to "hear" colors and shapes with the help of sensory substitution devices (SSDs), which will be able to convey the information to the brain non-invasively through other senses.
Sensory substitution devices will help blind to 'hear' colors, shapes
A team from Bath University's psychology department asked blindfolded sighted participants to use the vOICE sensory substitution device during an eye test.
Sound aid to eyesight
A second goal is to empirically test scientific implications of the theory in specific, promising areas: namely, color psychophysics, sensory substitution, child development and developmental robotics.
France-A new approach to understanding consciousness: how "feel" arises in humans and (possibly) robots Project
Chapters examine in detail topics such as types of vision loss and implications thereof, sensory substitution including tactile response, levels of effectiveness of various technologies, travel assistance, and computer assistance tools.
Assistive technology for blindness and low vision
The concept of sensory substitution has been widely used in the design of electronic devices for travel (accessible pedestrian signals and the MiniGuide, for example), and for reading and browsing the web (examples include JAWS and the Kurzweil-NFB reader).
Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
The results of the present work can be useful for sensory substitution and augmentation in stimulation of healthy skin and also have implications in the sensory feedback for hand prostheses and sensory discrimination-based treatment for PLP.
Evaluation of sensation evoked by electrocutaneous stimulation on forearm in nondisabled subjects
Other subjects are haptic face processing and its relation to vision, large-scale brain plasticity following blindness, and the use of sensory substitution devices.
Multisensory object perception in the primate brain
In addition to exoskeletons, the study also considers the outlook for advanced powered upper-limb prostheses, which substitute for arms, and ocular sensory substitution devices, which can restore some level of sight to the blind.
HULC Military Exoskeleton Ready for Human Trials; ABI Research Forecasts More than 11,000 Will Ship by 2020
Research shows echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo-based assessments of objects.
Blind Echolocators Use Visual Areas of Brain
The success of the sensory substitution approach suggests great potential for its use in therapy more broadly, the researchers say.
Blind people can 'see' with sounds
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