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Michelle Thomas is learning to "see", not with her eyes but her ears. Blind since birth, Ms Thomas is able to recognize the walls and doors of her house, discern whether the lights are on or off and even distinguish a CD from a floppy disk after only a week using a revolutionary new system....
Restoration of sight in a blind person imposes great clinical and scientific challenges. Despite intensive efforts, restoration of truly functional vision using neuroprostheses has not been achieved. We suggest here that a major reason for this failure is that the brain in the blind undergoes...
Abstract Sensory substitution devices (SSD) can play a role in rehabilitation of the blind with restoration of visual functions by: (1) assisting in daily-life activities such as recognizing visual objects (2) "guiding" visual cortex to interpret information arriving from visual prostheses. We...
