@seeingwithsound@mas.toCompanies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness
@seeingwithsound@mas.toI'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").
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@seeingwithsound@mas.toArtificial Vision 2026 - International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, Aachen, Germany. Call for abstracts, deadline September 16, 2026 #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRapid sequential activation from A1 to V1 in congenitally blind and sighted subjects https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923026001784 on primary visual cortex activation by auditory stimuli;
@seeingwithsound@mas.toLow-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness
@seeingwithsound@mas.toSensory challenges should be treated more like sports challenges: people don't ask if it is "useful" to play football or tennis or chess. Why not the same thing with pushing the limits of perception with novel visual prostheses? #BCI #NeuroTech
