[HTML][HTML] Origins of task-specific sensory-independent organization in the visual and auditory brain: neuroscience evidence, open questions and clinical implications

B Heimler, E Striem-Amit, A Amedi - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biased connectivity and shape sensitivity explain plasticity in sensory
deprivations.•Large-scale network organization is preserved in deprived retinotopic visual …

Learning to see after early and extended blindness: A scoping review

E May, P Arach, E Kishiki, R Geneau… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose If an individual has been blind since birth due to a treatable eye condition, ocular
treatment is urgent. Even a brief period of visual deprivation can alter the development of the …

Non-Markovian dynamics under time-translation symmetry

R Dann, N Megier, R Kosloff - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
A dynamical symmetry is employed to determine the structure of the quantum non-
Markovian time-local master equation. Such a structure is composed from two components …

Congenitally blind adults can learn to identify face-shapes via auditory sensory substitution and successfully generalize some of the learned features

R Arbel, B Heimler, A Amedi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Unlike sighted individuals, congenitally blind individuals have little to no experience with
face shapes. Instead, they rely on non-shape cues, such as voices, to perform character …

Backward spatial perception can be augmented through a novel visual-to-auditory sensory substitution algorithm

O Netzer, B Heimler, A Shur, T Behor, A Amedi - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Can humans extend and augment their natural perceptions during adulthood? Here, we
address this fascinating question by investigating the extent to which it is possible to …

Substituição sensorial visuo-tátil e visuo-auditiva em pessoas com deficiência visual: uma revisão sistemática

JP TORRES, CSL COSTA… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
buscando conhecer a produção científica atual sobre substituição sensorial, o objetivo
desse estudo foi analisar os métodos e dispositivos de substituição sensorial destinados a …

[PDF][PDF] Perception and interactive technology

M Scheller, K Petrini, MJ Proulx - Stevens' handbook of …, 2018 - people.bath.ac.uk
“What does it mean, to see?” was the question that David Marr used to motivate his
computational approach to understanding Vision (Marr, 1982). Marr's answer, building on …

Task-selectivity in the sensory deprived brain and sensory substitution approaches for clinical practice: evidence from blindness

B Heimler, A Amedi - Multisensory Perception, 2020 - Elsevier
What are the principles underlying the emergence of specializations in the human brain? In
the last few decades, convergent evidence from studies with sensory deprived populations …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of irrelevant environmental noise on the performance of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices used by blind adults

G Buchs, B Heimler, A Amedi - Multisensory research, 2019 - brill.com
Abstract Visual-to-auditory Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) are a family of non-invasive
devices for visual rehabilitation aiming at conveying whole-scene visual information through …

Technological Trends in Sensory Substitution

KD Moon, MS Kim, CY Jeong, YK Park… - Electronics and …, 2019 - koreascience.kr
Sensory substitution involves mapping the characteristics of one sensory modality to the
stimuli of another sensory modality. In general, when a person is visually impaired or deaf …