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SUBMITTER: Kupers R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1550769 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kupers Ron R Fumal Arnaud A de Noordhout Alain Maertens AM Gjedde Albert A Schoenen Jean J Ptito Maurice M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060817 35
After loss of a particular sensory channel, the deprived cortex can be activated by inputs from other sensory modalities. It is not known whether activation of the rewired cortex evokes subjective experiences characteristic of that cortex or consistent with the rerouted sensory information. In a previous study, blind subjects were trained to perform visual tasks with a tongue display unit, a sensory substitution device that translates visual displays into electrotactile tongue stimulation. This ...[more]