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Non-invasive optical stimulation for induction of auditory perception https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136516 "It may also open new avenues for sensory substitution devices"
Optical induction of auditory perception via cochlear stimulation in Mongolian gerbils …

Non-invasive optical stimulation for induction of auditory perception
Hearing loss affects communication, learning, independence, and social well-being. While cochlear implants have transformed treatment for severe hearing impairment, they require surgery and are often associated with post-operative complications. They also rely on electrical stimulation, which can limit their precision. Researchers are therefore exploring whether applying optical neural stimulation through brain-machine interfaces can mitigate these limitations. However, the effect of laser stim…

60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at the fillmore auditorium, alternating sets with the jefferson airplane. being a 1966 saturday, probably tripping, too. owsley tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-07-16.sbd.miller.89555.sbeok.flac16 [1/4]

60 years ago today, the grateful dead at the fillmore auditorium, alternating sets with the jefferson airplane. nice big sound on the tape with some signs of progress & the last version of a dead song so lost they weren’t even sure later if they wrote it (they did, i’m pretty sure). only 45 minutes of an owsley tape in circulation: ht…

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foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743555v1 "We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats", "animals could efficiently employ active sen…

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict
When sensory modalities yield conflicting information, animals must rapidly reassess stimuli to select their actions. We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats by fitting animals with prisms that shifted the perceived visual location of a landing perch while echoes returned from its veridical location. Bats that course-corrected within a single goal-directed flight did so by decoupling sonar gaze from steering, to enable rapid reweighting of visual and …

Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-026-02362-x

Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities - Psychological Research
Arithmetic computation is ubiquitous in daily life and occurs in both visual and auditory modalities. Visual form matching, as a key visual perceptual ability, serves as an important cognitive basis for arithmetic ability, but its role in auditory arithmetic tasks remains unclear. The primary aim of this study was to examine whether the association between visual form matching and arithmetic processing is influenced by the presentation modality. A sample of 241 undergraduates from China (109 ma…

hey, a newly surfaced grateful dead tape from may 1970! it's murky af, incomplete, & briefly interrupted by what sounds like a recording of a military college graduation but hey, a newly surfaced dead tape from worcester '70! download in post: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2026/0…

Optimizing sensory substitution training: The role of structure and intervention in VSST skill acquisition https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-30552-7_58 On visual-to-auditory sensory substitution technology (#VSST), at HCI International 2026 (#HCII2026), …

Optimizing Sensory Substitution Training: The Role of Structure and Intervention in VSST Skill Acquisition
Visual-to-auditory Sensory Substitution Technology (VSST) transforms image data into sound, enabling users to perceive visual information through hearing. Acquiring this novel perceptual ability demands a continuous and highly efficient training process, analogous to...