Active Sensory Substitution Allows Fast Learning Via Effective Motor-Sensory Strategies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Zilbershtain-Kra ◽  
Shmuel Graffi ◽  
Ehud Ahissar ◽  
Amos Arieli
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Fast Learning ◽  
Sensory Strategies

scholarly journals Active sensory substitution allows fast learning via effective motor-sensory strategies

iScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 101918
Author(s):  
Yael Zilbershtain-Kra ◽  
Shmuel Graffi ◽  
Ehud Ahissar ◽  
Amos Arieli
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Fast Learning ◽  
Sensory Strategies

Fast Learning of Generalized Minimum Enclosing Ball for Large Datasets

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 1831
Author(s):  
Wen-Jun HU ◽  
Shi-Tong WANG ◽  
Juan WANG ◽  
Wen-Hao YING
Keyword(s):  
Large Datasets ◽  
Fast Learning ◽  
Minimum Enclosing Ball

Patrolling the Boundaries of Synaesthesia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malika Auvray ◽  
Mirko Farina
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Neurological Condition ◽  
Flavor Perception ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Hypnotic Suggestions

Synaesthesia is a neurological condition in which people make unusual associations between various sensations. This chapter investigates conceptually whether alleged non-developmental (i.e. artificial) forms of synaesthesia could be counted as genuine synaesthetic experiences. It focuses in particular on post-hypnotic suggestions, drug habits, flavor perception, and use of sensory substitution devices. It discusses a number of criteria that have been taken as definitional of synaesthesia; namely, inducer-concurrent pairing, idiosyncrasy, consistency over time, and automaticity of the process, and subsequently investigates whether those alleged non-developmental cases could fulfill these criteria. Although the response provided here is negative, as each of the cases fail to fulfill one or several of the criteria, the comparisons between these cases and congenital synaesthesia prove useful to highlight key differences between different kinds of multisensory experiences.

SENSORY SUBSTITUTION IN PROSTHETICS

Hand Clinics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-488
Author(s):  
Göran Lundborg ◽  
Birgitta Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Substitution

scholarly journals Training-induced plasticity enables visualizing sounds with a visual-to-auditory conversion device

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau ◽  
Gabriel Arnold ◽  
Malika Auvray
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Sensory Modality ◽  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Visual Functions ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Visual Distractors ◽  
Auditory Processes

AbstractSensory substitution devices aim at restoring visual functions by converting visual information into auditory or tactile stimuli. Although these devices show promise in the range of behavioral abilities they allow, the processes underlying their use remain underspecified. In particular, while an initial debate focused on the visual versus auditory or tactile nature of sensory substitution, since over a decade, the idea that it reflects a mixture of both has emerged. In order to investigate behaviorally the extent to which visual and auditory processes are involved, participants completed a Stroop-like crossmodal interference paradigm before and after being trained with a conversion device which translates visual images into sounds. In addition, participants' auditory abilities and their phenomenologies were measured. Our study revealed that, after training, when asked to identify sounds, processes shared with vision were involved, as participants’ performance in sound identification was influenced by the simultaneously presented visual distractors. In addition, participants’ performance during training and their associated phenomenology depended on their auditory abilities, revealing that processing finds its roots in the input sensory modality. Our results pave the way for improving the design and learning of these devices by taking into account inter-individual differences in auditory and visual perceptual strategies.

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