Sensory substitution techniques are perceptual and cognitive phenomena used to represent
one sensory form with an alternative. Current applications of sensory substitution techniques …

Background Wearable obstacle avoidance electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been
developed to assist the safe displacement of blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) in …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

This paper documents the design, implementation and evaluation of the Unfolding Space
Glove—an open source sensory substitution device. It transmits the relative position and …

The loss or absence of vision is probably one of the most incapacitating events that can
befall a human being. The importance of vision for humans is also reflected in brain anatomy …

In congenital blindness (CB), tactile, and auditory information can be reinterpreted by the
brain to compensate for visual information through mechanisms of brain plasticity triggered …

This paper proposes a novel framework for a better understanding of human cognitive
locomotion and its interaction with the new tactile technologies that assist mobility and the …

Audio is the main form for the visually impaired to obtain information. In reality, all kinds of
visual data always exist, but audio data does not exist in many cases. In order to help the …

Blind individuals often report difficulties to navigate and to detect objects placed outside their
peri-personal space. Although classical sensory substitution devices could be helpful in this …

In recent decades, numerous structural brain imaging studies investigated purported
morphometric changes in early (EB) and late onset blindness (LB). The results of these …