Multisensory inclusive design with sensory substitution

Multisensory integration, sensory substitution and visual rehabilitation.

Sensory substitution has advanced remarkably over the past 35 years since first introduced to the scientific literature by Paul Bach-y-Rita. In this issue dedicated to his memory, we describe a collection of reviews that assess the current state of neuroscience research on sensory substitution, visual rehabilitation, and multisensory processes.

Sensory Substitution/Multisensory Correlation in Physical Rehabilitation Science

Assessing outcomes for extracorporeal orthotic and prosthetic clinical and technological intervention is fairly straight forward: just ask. Of course, the resulting subjective interpretation (ratings) might not fully capture or accurately reflect the underlining biological issues involved in physical restoration and rehabilitation of individuals with desensitized or missing limbs. Further, such...

Are the Primary Sensory Cortices Multisensory?

Historically the brain has been viewed as operating in a modular and hierarchical manner. In particular it was previously assumed that each of the primary sensory cortices processed input from a single sensory modality before feeding this information to higher regions of the brain devoted to multisensory integration. This review however outlines a wealth of findings that have emerged in recent ...

Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Emergence

Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) can be thought of as sensory prosthetics — as devices by which information normally represented by one perceptual modality is instead represented by an alternative, non-canonical channel involving a second perceptual modality. Given that sensory modalities ordinarily represent a very wide range of properties/events, it is no trivial matter to ensure that such...

TITLE : Anthro - Centric Multisensory Interface for Vision Augmentation / Substitution