From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Thu Aug 30 13:17:38 2018 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:17:38 +0000 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] Question about Metamodal graphics Message-ID: Hi, It's been awhile since I have posted. Sorry. I have a question that I have been thinking about for a while and hope to get your thoughts on it. Many of you, if not all, are perhaps familiar with Professors Pauscual-Leone and Hamilton research on the metamodel organization of the brain. >From what I understand from it - is that the ability to read tactile graphics (the contours/edges) is already hard wired into the brain- in one particular area. OK - please forgive me a very unsophisticated explanation. So I got to thinking about the field we are engaged in -and perhaps some of you have thought this too - that what we do is design Metamodal graphics. So I was thinking that a perhaps more accurate name for tactile graphics could be Metamodal tactile graphics or just metamodal graphics ... something like that. The reason I propose this is that it would bring to the forefront this ability that we all have. Adding a few links: Lisa The metamodal organization of the brain http://tmslab.org/includes/alvaro_3.pdf The Plastic Human Brain Cortex https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16022601 Task Selectivity as a Comprehensive Principle of Brain Organization https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28385460 Individual Differences in Sensory Substitiution https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144216?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed Perspective taking, pictures, and the blind https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2247329 Neural Reoganization following Sensory Loss: The Opportunity of Change https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40029139_Neural_Reorganization_Following_Sensory_Loss_The_Opportunity_Of_Change Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/6/1679/2847628 Following is a really good book Making Space How the Brain Know Where Things Are https://www.amazon.com/Making-Space-Brain-Knows-Things/dp/0674863216 This is also a really nice book - perhaps a bit off subject Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, https://www.amazon.com/Reductionism-Art-Brain-Science-Bridging/dp/0231179626 Daniel Kish's echolocation in action www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATlyq3uZM4 -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services-