[Artbeyondsightmuseums] Camera-to-sound app lets blind people 'see'

[Donnelly Wilburn]

Hi Lisa
Fascinating!   I have read the email, and plan to spend more time with the
links for further information.
Again, thanks for all the interesting articles you provide.
Donnie

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Subject: [Artbeyondsightmuseums] Camera-to-sound app lets blind people 'see'

Hi,
Two articles about seeing with sound. One with vOICe and the other via an
app.
Question about the last statement about object recognition in the visual
cortex - think that this has been show before with Esref Armagon?
Regards,
Lisa

Camera-to-sound app lets blind people 'see'
excerpt
People who have lived in the dark from birth have now found they don't need
their eyes to see. A new device developed by Amir
Amedi<http://brain.huji.ac.il/default.asp> from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem in Israel and colleagues is giving congenitally blind adults the
ability to interpret visual information from sound.
By monitoring the neural activity of blind people using the device, Amedi
and his team found that even though the users weren't using their eyes,
their visual cortex was activated by the soundscapes. This shows, for the
first time, that specialised areas responsible for object recognition or
reading can still be triggered later in life even if they have never been
exposed to normal visual information.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/11/seeing-with-sound.html?cmpid=
NLC|NSNS|2012-1211-GLOBAL|seeingwithsound&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&utm
_content=seeingwithsound
excerpt

Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound

CLAIRE CHESKIN used to live in a murky world of grey, her damaged eyes only
seeing large objects if they were right next to her. She could detect the
outlines of people but not their expressions, and could just about make out
the silhouettes of buildings, but no details. Looking into the distance?
Forget it.

Nowadays things are looking distinctly brighter for Cheskin. Using a device
called vOICe, which translates visual images into "soundscapes", she has
trained her brain to "see through her ears".
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727731.500
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