Depiction of the vOICe encoding scheme. A camera mounted on glasses records video that is converted to sound by a computer and transmitted to headphones in real time. Credit: Shimojo Lab/Caltech
Caltech researchers have now discovered that intrinsic neural connections- crossmodal mappings -can be used by assistive devices to help the blind detect their environment without requiring intense concentration or hundreds of hours of training. This new multisensory perspective on such aids (called sensory substitution devices) could make tasks that were previously attention-consuming much easier, allowing nonsighted people to acquire a new sensory functionality similar to vision.
“.. 99% of our daily life depends on multisensory- also called multimodal processing...
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