#congenitally — Public Fediverse posts

(Nimer's Blog) Seeing with sound: My adventures in echolocation and The vOICe https://nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/09/seeing-with-sound-my-adventures-in.html #congenitally #blind #blindness #a11y

See also his earlier YouTube video "Crossing streets with The vOICe sensory substitution app" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceSO-Qlq8TM (safety disclaimers apply)

#Sound suppresses earliest visual cortical processing after sight recovery in #congenitally #blind humans https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05749-3 "persisting #crossmodal activity in the visual cortex after sight recovery following a period of congenital visual deprivation"; encode vision in sound?

Decoding reach direction in early "visual" cortex of congenitally blind individuals https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/46/7868 via @AV_SP; "actions of reaching in different directions can be reliably decoded from fMRI activity of EVC in #congenitally #blind humans"; foveal hi-res & dorsal roles; visual imagery not needed; #neuroscience #blindness

Neuroplastic changes in functional wiring in sensory cortices of the #congenitally #deaf: A network analysis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.26530 "in the deaf but not the hearing group, subcortical thalamic nuclei are highly connected to auditory areas during processing of visual information"; #crossmodal #plasticity

Neural specialization for 'visual' concepts emerges in the absence of vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.23.552701v1 "preserved neural signatures of 'visual' light events in the left middle temporal gyrus (LMTG)"; #congenitally #blind

More information on Twitter/X at https://twitter.com/miriam_hauptman/status/1695002791180152971

Does visual experience influence arm #proprioception and its lateralization? Evidence from passive matching performance in #congenitally-#blind and #sighted adults https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030439402300294X

#Congenitally #blind user of The vOICe for Android today: "It really helps with #orientation and spotting #visual #landmarks is really handy."

White matter #plasticity following #cataract surgery in #congenitally #blind patients https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207025120 "sight surgery induced considerable white matter plasticity in late-visual pathways"; #neuroscience

Brazilian research uncovers why #congenitally #blind people show activity in visual-processing areas of the brain https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976644 "the visual cortex is also invaded by connections that refine other senses, such as hearing and touch"; #plasticity #neuroscience

Reorganization of thalamocortical connections in #congenitally #blind humans https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.26192 "shedding light on the possible mechanisms of cross-modal plasticity in humans"; #crossmodal #plasticity #neuroscience

(YouTube) Crossing streets with #The_vOICe sensory substitution app https://youtube.com/watch?v=ceSO-Qlq8TM #congenitally #blind #vision #a11y #sight