The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺

#Paradromics: From brain implants to neuroprosthetics | Making sense of brain-computer interface terminology https://www.paradromics.com/insights/from-brain-implants-to-neuroprosthetics "The term “vision BCI” can also encompass non-implanted sensory substitution devices like The vOICe, which converts camera input to sound for the blind" #invasive and #noninvasive #BCI #NeuroTech

"For example, shape processing can be elicited through audition or touch using sensory substitution devices. These findings support the idea that cortical regions are not strictly tied to a single input channel, but may instead operate in a modality-independent fashion"; #SSD #BCI

Rethinking modality-specificity in mental imagery https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05561-6 by @FabMusacchio on the #supramodal brain.

Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/myelin-emerges-as-an-active-regulator-of-brain-plasticity-not-only-a-structural-insulator/ar-AA237Cc5

Neurotransmitter-activated GPCR signaling in myelin plasticity https://www.cell.com/trends/molecular-medicine/fulltext/S1471-4914(26)00087-0 #neuroscience

"even the earliest parts of visual processing are better characterised as a spatiotemporally evolving process that encodes information in its dynamics rather than purely spatial response patterns."

The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825 Spells trouble/complications for Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision to the blind; #BCI #blindness #neuroscience

Implanted brain-computer interface functionality during nighttime in late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-44228-7 "When applied to night data, daytime decoders caused unintentional BCI activations in 100% of nights." #ALS #BCI #NeuroTech

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116572596270098497

The UK's answer to DARPA wants to rewire the human brain https://www.wired.com/story/kathleen-fisher-jacques-carolan-aria-wired-health/ "ARIA has a billion-dollar budget and big aspirations for tackling everything from epilepsy to Alzheimer's." #BCI #NeuroTech #ARIA

Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/scalable-neural-interfaces/massively-scalable-neurotechnologies/ "Backed by £50m, this programme sits within the Scalable Neural Interfaces opportunity space and is seeking radically new ways to deliver responsive neurotechnologies to the brain without brain surgery." #BCI #NeuroTech

The vOICe vision BCI is AI-agnostic: the AI compatibility mode of The vOICe for Android and The vOICe web app works with any third-party AI that can record from the screen, such as through Google Gemini Live and ChatGPT screen sharing https://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#preview_AI #BCI #AI #blindness

I'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").

#blindness #noninvasive #BCI #neuroscience

Third successful implantation of wireless visual prosthesis brain implant advances the frontier of artificial vision https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127336 #ICVP (intracortical visual prosthesis) #BCI #blindness

"Since many individuals affected by total blindness do not have intact retina or optic nerves but retain the visual cortex [...] an intracortical visual prosthesis may be the only possible advanced visual sensory aid from which they can benefit."

Hierarchical and non-hierarchical network flows generate complementary representational dynamics in human visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719298v1 #NeuroAI

Review: The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1808558/full #PFC #neuroscience

Futuristic eye implant bypasses cornea to beam images straight to retina https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/proof-of-concept-implant-corneal-blindness/ #Intra-#Ker, #Xpanceo #corneal #blindness

https://www.intra-ker.com
https://www.xpanceo.com

Forbes: Xpanceo and Intra-Ker put first camera-display implant in the human eye https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025/09/03/xpanceo-and-intra-ker-put-first-camera-display-implant-in-the-human-eye/ (archived at https://archive.ph/0OmQ4)