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Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…

Spontaneous recruitment of the person-knowledge network by familiar voices in the congenitally blind https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-16840-6

Spontaneous recruitment of the person-knowledge network by familiar voices in the congenitally blind - Scientific Reports
Recognising a familiar individual involves the spontaneous retrieval of person-specific information, engaging a distributed cortical network for person knowledge. While the role of this system is well established for visual face perception, it remains unclear whether its recruitment depends on visual experience. Here, we investigated the neural basis of voice-identity processing in congenitally blind and sighted individuals using fMRI. Participants listened to personally familiar and unfamiliar…

Contrary to Neuralink Blindsight's lack of evidence concerning applicability to people born blind, there is the 2012 paper titled "'Visual' acuity of the congenitally blind using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution
Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that…

Congenitally blind user of The vOICe: "I cannot feel the vehicle with the large diesel engine moving next to me but with The vOICe, I can see that it has many windows so is a bus as opposed to a truck."
What would a congenitally blind Neuralink Blindsight brain implant recipient see? #BCI #blindness

Congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI: A look at building layers #noninvasive

A look at building layers
I was walking around in the gated community where I live. Checkout this interesting image I took. It primarily shows different buildings. I was on the upper deck of a swimmingpool area where there …

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss - Scientific Data
In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset …

No sugarcoating The vOICe learning curve: "It's a mountain, not a molehill" https://nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/09/seeing-with-sound-my-adventures-in.html says another congenitally blind user of The vOICe. But compatibility with AI scene de…