He is considered as the first to propose the concept of
sensory substitution to treat patients with disabilities, often those caused by neurological problems.
Addition of dynamic head tilt movements to sensory organization test protocols might provide a useful enhancement, especially in evaluating subjects with extensive balance control performance who can compensate with increased task vigilance or
sensory substitution.
The BrainPort V100 device (Wicab, Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin) employs the concept of
sensory substitution by enabling tactile perception of information ordinarily processed by the visual system.
We hypothesized that rehabilitation therapy based on sensory-motor stimulation could contribute to acquisition of compensative strategies to improve gait, given the important role that the visual and proprioceptive deprivation has in
sensory substitution [23].
KEYWORDS:
sensory substitution, visual prosthesis, visual to sound, blindness, neuroplasticity, medicine, technology
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.
Haptic feedback aims at restoring sensory presence through force feedback or by
sensory substitution (e.g.
Eagleman calls this the PH (Potato Head) model of evolution, he goes on to say that "Our best proof of principle of this comes from what's called
sensory substitution. And that refers to feeding information into the brain via unusual sensory channels, and the brain just figures out what to do with it."
Cross modal plasticity refers to the capacity of the brain to replace the functions of a lost part by another part, the most commonly used form of
sensory substitution is Braille reading.
The device depends on
sensory substitution which involves feeding information from one sense into another.