ArticleFrontiers in psychology2012
Reading the World through the Skin and Ears: A New Perspective on Sensory Substitution.
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- Training-induced plasticity enables visualizing sounds with a visual-to-auditory conversion device.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Sensory substitution reveals a manipulation bias.Nature communications · 2020Article
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- Brain Machine Interfaces for Vision Restoration: The Current State of Cortical Visual Prosthetics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2019Review
- Neuromorphic Vibrotactile Stimulation of Fingertips for Encoding Object Stiffness in Telepresence Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Sensory augmentation: integration of an auditory compass signal into human perception of space.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Assimilation of virtual legs and perception of floor texture by complete paraplegic patients receiving artificial tactile feedback.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Perception of Graphical Virtual Environments by Blind Users via Sensory Substitution.PloS one · 2016Article
- Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception.PloS one · 2016Article
- Integration and binding in rehabilitative sensory substitution: Increasing resolution using a new Zooming-in approach.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2016Article
- 'Visual' parsing can be taught quickly without visual experience during critical periods.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- The experience of new sensorimotor contingencies by sensory augmentation.Consciousness and cognition · 2014Article
- Rethinking the senses and their interactions: the case for sensory pluralism.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Sensory substitution devices aim at replacing or assisting one or several functions of a deficient sensory modality by means of another sensory modality. Despite the numerous studies and research programs devoted to their development and integration, sensory substitution devices have failed to live up to their goal of allowing one to "see with the skin" (White et al., 1970) or to "see with the brain" (Bach-y-Rita et al., 2003). These somewhat peremptory claims, as well as the research conducted so far, are based on an implicit perceptual paradigm. Such perceptual assumption accepts the equivalence between using a sensory substitution device and perceiving through a particular sensory modality. Our aim is to provide an alternative model, which defines sensory substitution as being closer to culturally implemented cognitive extensions of existing perceptual skills such as reading. In this article, we will show why the analogy with reading provides a better explanation of the actual findings, that is, both of the positive results achieved and of the limitations noticed across the field of research on sensory substitution. The parallel with the most recent two-route and interactive models of reading (e.g., Dehaene et al., 2005) generates a radically new way of approaching these results, by stressing the dependence of integration on the existing perceptual-semantic route. In addition, the present perspective enables us to generate innovative research questions and specific predictions which set the stage for future work.
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