Are critical periods reversible in the adult brain? Insights on cortical specializations based on sensory deprivation studies

B Heimler, A Amedi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review here studies with visual and auditory deprived/recovery populations to argue for
the need of a redefinition of the crucial role of unisensory-specific experiences during critical …

[HTML][HTML] Is attentional resource allocation across sensory modalities task-dependent?

B Wahn, P König - Advances in cognitive psychology, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human information processing is limited by attentional resources. That is, via attentional
mechanisms, humans select a limited amount of sensory input to process while other …

Getting LOST: A conceptual framework for supporting and enhancing spatial navigation in aging

SM Weisberg, NC Ebner… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial navigation is more difficult and effortful for older than younger individuals, a shift
which occurs for a variety of neurological, physical, and cognitive reasons associated with …

Retention effects of long-term balance training with vibrotactile sensory augmentation in healthy older adults

T Bao, F Noohi, C Kinnaird, WJ Carender, VJ Barone… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vibrotactile sensory augmentation (SA) decreases postural sway during real-time use;
however, limited studies have investigated the long-term effects of training with SA. This …

Enhancing human-human musical interaction through kinesthetic haptic feedback using wearable exoskeletons: theoretical foundations, validation scenarios, and …

A Michałko, N Di Stefano, A Campo… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In this perspective paper, we explore the use of haptic feedback to enhance human-human
interaction during musical tasks. We start by providing an overview of the theoretical …

Comparing episodic memory outcomes from walking augmented reality and stationary virtual reality encoding experiences

A Pastor, P Bourdin-Kreitz - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Episodic Memory (EM) is the neurocognitive capacity to consciously recollect personally
experienced events in specific spatio-temporal contexts. Although the relevance of spatial …

Movement-contingent time flow in virtual reality causes temporal recalibration

A Bansal, S Weech, M Barnett-Cowan - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Virtual reality (VR) provides a valuable research tool for studying what occurs when
sensorimotor feedback loops are manipulated. Here we measured whether exposure to a …

Sensory augmentation: Integration of an auditory compass signal into human perception of space

F Schumann, JK O'Regan - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Bio-mimetic approaches to restoring sensory function show great promise in that they rapidly
produce perceptual experience, but have the disadvantage of being invasive. In contrast …

Enactive vision

E Myin, J Degenaar - The Routledge handbook of embodied …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
By proposing this approach to minds, enactivists have explicitly opposed themselves to
cognitivists, who take representation as their central posit (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch …

How to teach a blind person to hear colours? Multi-method training for a colour-to-sound sensory substitution device–design and evaluation

M Łukowska, W Kałwak, D Osiński, J Janik… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sensory substitution is thought to be a promising non-invasive assistive technology for
people with complete loss of sight because it provides inaccessible visual information via a …