Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1

Abnormal visual experience during development alters the early stages of visual-tactile integration

(2016) Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Interactive spatial sonification for non-visual exploration of virtual maps

(2016) Michele Geronazzo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES

Top-down influence on the visual cortex of the blind during sensory substitution

(2016) Matthew C. Murphy et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The multisensory function of the human primary visual cortex

(2016) Micah M. Murray et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Aging and Sensory Substitution in a Virtual Navigation Task

(2016) S. Levy-Tzedek et al.   PLoS One

Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles

(2015) Ella Striem-Amit et al.   BRAIN

The role of visual deprivation and experience on the performance of sensory substitution devices

(2015) H. Christiaan Stronks et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Long-Lasting Crossmodal Cortical Reorganization Triggered by Brief Postnatal Visual Deprivation

(2015) Olivier Collignon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Limits of Shape Recognition following Late Emergence from Blindness

(2015) Ayelet McKyton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How Visual Is the Visual Cortex? Comparing Connectional and Functional Fingerprints between Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals

(2015) X. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

“Visual” Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children

(2015) Marina Bedny et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Impaired recognition of faces and objects in dyslexia: Evidence for ventral stream dysfunction?

(2015) Heida Maria Sigurdardottir et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Integration and binding in rehabilitative sensory substitution: Increasing resolution using a new Zooming-in approach

(2015) Galit Buchs et al.   RESTORATIVE NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

Other ways of seeing: From behavior to neural mechanisms in the online “visual” control of action with sensory substitution

(2015) Michael J. Proulx et al.   RESTORATIVE NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

Parahippocampal cortex is involved in material processing via echoes in blind echolocation experts

(2015) Jennifer L. Milne et al.   VISION RESEARCH

Auditory Sensory Substitution is Intuitive and Automatic with Texture Stimuli

(2015) Noelle R. B. Stiles et al.   Scientific Reports

Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information: toward an estimate of the skin’s achievable throughput

(2015) Scott D. Novich et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Navigation Using Sensory Substitution in Real and Virtual Mazes

(2015) Daniel-Robert Chebat et al.   PLoS One

The blind brain: How (lack of) vision shapes the morphological and functional architecture of the human brain

(2014) Emiliano Ricciardi et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Multisensory constraints on awareness

(2014) O. Deroy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using an auditory sensory substitution device to augment vision: evidence from eye movements

(2014) Thomas D. Wright et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The Process of Distal Attribution Illuminated Through Studies of Sensory Substitution

(2014) Jess Hartcher-O’Brien et al.   Multisensory Research

Divided Multimodal Attention: Sensory Trace and Context Coding Strategies in Spatially Congruent Auditory and Visual Presentation

(2014) Tómas Kristjánsson et al.   Multisensory Research

Visual Objects in the Auditory System in Sensory Substitution: How Much Information Do We Need?

(2014) David J. Brown et al.   Multisensory Research

The Effect of Extended Sensory Range via the EyeCane Sensory Substitution Device on the Characteristics of Visionless Virtual Navigation

(2014) Shachar Maidenbaum et al.   Multisensory Research

Is There a Future for Sensory Substitution Outside Academic Laboratories?

(2014) Giulia V. Elli et al.   Multisensory Research

Color improves “visual” acuity via sound

(2014) Shelly Levy-Tzedek et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

The case for causal influences of action videogame play upon vision and attention

(2013) Árni Kristjánsson   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Neither touch nor vision: sensory substitution as artificial synaesthesia?

(2013) Mirko Farina   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Impairment of auditory spatial localization in congenitally blind human subjects

(2013) Monica Gori et al.   BRAIN

Neural correlates of motion processing through echolocation, source hearing, and vision in blind echolocation experts and sighted echolocation novices

(2013) L. Thaler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Mind the blind brain to understand the sighted one! Is there a supramodal cortical functional architecture?

(2013) Emiliano Ricciardi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Sensory substitution: Closing the gap between basic research and widespread practical visual rehabilitation

(2013) Shachar Maidenbaum et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Perceiving Space and Optical Cues via a Visuo-Tactile Sensory Substitution System: A Methodological Approach for Training of Blind Subjects for Navigation

(2013) Hervé Segond et al.   PERCEPTION

Sensory substitution information informs locomotor adjustments when walking through apertures

(2013) Andrew J. Kolarik et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Brain Plasticity Through the Life Span: Learning to Learn and Action Video Games

(2012) Daphne Bavelier et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Reading with Sounds: Sensory Substitution Selectively Activates the Visual Word Form Area in the Blind

(2012) Ella Striem-Amit et al.   NEURON

Activation of the hippocampal complex during tactile maze solving in congenitally blind subjects

(2012) Léa Gagnon et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

The role of visual experience for the neural basis of spatial cognition

(2012) Achille Pasqualotto et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Multisensory perceptual learning and sensory substitution

(2012) Michael J. Proulx et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Sensory substitution as an artificially acquired synaesthesia

(2012) Jamie Ward et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution

(2012) Ella Striem-Amit et al.   PLoS One

Teaching the Blind to Find Their Way by Playing Video Games

(2012) Lotfi B. Merabet et al.   PLoS One

Auditory, tactile, and audiotactile information processing following visual deprivation.

(2012) Valeria Occelli et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Designing Rehabilitation Programs for Neglect: Could 2 Be More Than 1+1?

(2011) Styrmir Saevarsson et al.   APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience

(2011) Lior Reich et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

(2011) Richard Held et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Navigation with a sensory substitution device in congenitally blind individuals

(2011) Daniel-Robert Chebat et al.   NEUROREPORT

Recruitment of Occipital Cortex during Sensory Substitution Training Linked to Subjective Experience of Seeing in People with Blindness

(2011) Tomás Ortiz et al.   PLoS One

Poor Haptic Orientation Discrimination in Nonsighted Children May Reflect Disruption of Cross-Sensory Calibration

(2010) Monica Gori et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Putting brain training to the test

(2010) Adrian M. Owen et al.   NATURE

Neural correlates of virtual route recognition in congenital blindness

(2010) Ron Kupers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words

(2010) E. Zrenner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Auditory and auditory-tactile processing in congenitally blind humans

(2009) Kirsten Hötting et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

Wearable Obstacle Avoidance Electronic Travel Aids for Blind: A Survey

(2009) D. Dakopoulos et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE

Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change

(2009) Lotfi B. Merabet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Object familiarity modulates the relationship between visual object imagery and haptic shape perception

(2009) Simon Lacey et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Tactile acuity in the blind: A closer look reveals superiority over the sighted in some but not all cutaneous tasks

(2009) Flamine Alary et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Early but not late-blindness leads to enhanced auditory perception

(2009) Catherine Y. Wan et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Recruitment of the middle temporal area by tactile motion in congenital blindness

(2009) Maurice Ptito et al.   NEUROREPORT

Functional characteristics of auditory cortex in the blind

(2008) Alexander A. Stevens et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Generalized learning of visual-to-auditory substitution in sighted individuals

(2008) Jung-Kyong Kim et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Development of Soft-Actuator-Based Wearable Tactile Display

(2008) Ig Mo Koo et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Differential occipital responses in early- and late-blind individuals during a sound-source discrimination task

(2008) Patrice Voss et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Multisensory Interplay Reveals Crossmodal Influences on ‘Sensory-Specific’ Brain Regions, Neural Responses, and Judgments

(2008) Jon Driver et al.   NEURON

Seeing ‘Where’ through the Ears: Effects of Learning-by-Doing and Long-Term Sensory Deprivation on Localization Based on Image-to-Sound Substitution

(2008) Michael J. Proulx et al.   PLoS One

Tactile acuity in the blind: a psychophysical study using a two-dimensional angle discrimination task

(2008) Flamine Alary et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH