ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
Brain-Machine Interfaces to Assist the Blind.
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neural substrates of spatial processing and navigation in blindness: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Pathways of Cross-Modal Access to the Visual Cortex in Late Blindness.Research square · 2026Article
- Brain-Computer Interfaces for Vision Recovery in Precortical Vision Loss.Eye and brain · 2026Review
- Specificity and flexibility in sensory substitution: learning to grasp with vibration on one or two fingers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assistive technology use in domestic activities by people who are blind.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bioelectronic Therapeutics: A Revolutionary Medical Practice in Health Care.Bioelectricity · 2025Review
- 7 Tesla MRI Reveals Brain Structural Abnormalities and Neural Plasticity in RPGR-Related Retinitis Pigmentosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Visual Prostheses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Technology.Eye and brain · 2025Review
- Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- SONOICE! a Sonar-Voice dynamic user interface for assisting individuals with blindness and visual impairment in pinpointing elements in 2D tactile readers.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- A narrative review of cortical visual prosthesis systems: the latest progress and significance of nanotechnology for the future.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Review
- New Era of Electroceuticals: Clinically Driven Smart Implantable Electronic Devices Moving towards Precision Therapy.Micromachines · 2022Review
- The Topo-Speech sensory substitution system as a method of conveying spatial information to the blind and vision impaired.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Gyrification in relation to cortical thickness in the congenitally blind.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Optic chiasmatic potential by endoscopically implanted skull base microinvasive biosensor: a brain-machine interface approach for anterior visual pathway assessment.Theranostics · 2022Article
- The Retina: A Window into the Brain.Cells · 2021Article
- Biosignal-Based Human-Machine Interfaces for Assistance and Rehabilitation: A Survey.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Blindness and the Reliability of Downwards Sensors to Avoid Obstacles: A Study with the EyeCane.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Disentangling Function from Benefit: Participant Perspectives from an Early Feasibility Trial for a Novel Visual Cortical Prosthesis.AJOB neuroscienceArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The loss or absence of vision is probably one of the most incapacitating events that can befall a human being. The importance of vision for humans is also reflected in brain anatomy as approximately one third of the human brain is devoted to vision. It is therefore unsurprising that throughout history many attempts have been undertaken to develop devices aiming at substituting for a missing visual capacity. In this review, we present two concepts that have been prevalent over the last two decades. The first concept is sensory substitution, which refers to the use of another sensory modality to perform a task that is normally primarily sub-served by the lost sense. The second concept is cross-modal plasticity, which occurs when loss of input in one sensory modality leads to reorganization in brain representation of other sensory modalities. Both phenomena are training-dependent. We also briefly describe the history of blindness from ancient times to modernity, and then proceed to address the
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.