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Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception.
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- Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience.Augmented human research · 2025Article
- Comparing episodic memory outcomes from walking augmented reality and stationary virtual reality encoding experiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Enhancing human-human musical interaction through kinesthetic haptic feedback using wearable exoskeletons: theoretical foundations, validation scenarios, and limitations.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Sensory augmentation for a rapid motor task in a multisensory environment.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2024Article
- Improved Spatial Knowledge Acquisition through Sensory Augmentation.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Acute Occupational Therapy for a Patient with Unilateral Spatial Neglect and Difficulty in Tool Manipulation: A Case Report.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2022Article
- Impact of a Vibrotactile Belt on Emotionally Challenging Everyday Situations of the Blind.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Backward spatial perception can be augmented through a novel visual-to-auditory sensory substitution algorithm.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Are allocentric spatial reference frames compatible with theories of Enactivism?Psychological research · 2019Article
- Movement-Contingent Time Flow in Virtual Reality Causes Temporal Recalibration.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Learning of Spatial Properties of a Large-Scale Virtual City With an Interactive Map.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Feel the way with a vibrotactile compass: Does a navigational aid aid navigation?Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2018Article
- 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
- Can Limitations of Visuospatial Attention Be Circumvented? A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
- Is Attentional Resource Allocation Across Sensory Modalities Task-Dependent?Advances in cognitive psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Theories of embodied cognition propose that perception is shaped by sensory stimuli and by the actions of the organism. Following sensorimotor contingency theory, the mastery of lawful relations between own behavior and resulting changes in sensory signals, called sensorimotor contingencies, is constitutive of conscious perception. Sensorimotor contingency theory predicts that, after training, knowledge relating to new sensorimotor contingencies develops, leading to changes in the activation of sensorimotor systems, and concomitant changes in perception. In the present study, we spell out this hypothesis in detail and investigate whether it is possible to learn new sensorimotor contingencies by sensory augmentation. Specifically, we designed an fMRI compatible sensory augmentation device, the feelSpace belt, which gives orientation information about the direction of magnetic north via vibrotactile stimulation on the waist of participants. In a longitudinal study, participants trained with this belt for seven weeks in natural environment. Our EEG results indicate that training with the belt leads to changes in sleep architecture early in the training phase, compatible with the consolidation of procedural learning as well as increased sensorimotor processing and motor programming. The fMRI results suggest that training entails activity in sensory as well as higher motor centers and brain areas known to be involved in navigation. These neural changes are accompanied with changes in how space and the belt signal are perceived, as well as with increased trust in navigational ability. Thus, our data on physiological processes and subjective experiences are compatible with the hypothesis that new sensorimotor contingencies can be acquired using sensory augmentation.
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