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SUBMITTER: Zai AT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7684286 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zai Anja T AT Cavé-Lopez Sophie S Rolland Manon M Giret Nicolas N Hahnloser Richard H R RHR
Nature communications 20201123 1
Sensory substitution is a promising therapeutic approach for replacing a missing or diseased sensory organ by translating inaccessible information into another sensory modality. However, many substitution systems are not well accepted by subjects. To explore the effect of sensory substitution on voluntary action repertoires and their associated affective valence, we study deaf songbirds to which we provide visual feedback as a substitute of auditory feedback. Surprisingly, deaf birds respond app ...[more]