“Seeing†through the tongue: cross-modal plasticity in the congenitally blind
- tested their tongue display unit on sighted and blind volunteers; the blind volunteers showed increased PET signal in their occipital lobe, while the sighted (blindfolded) volunteers did not, though both achieved the same levels of performance on a orientation discrimination task after one week of intensive training.
- TDU unit has 144 contacts.
- spatial learning with this is apparently robust and rapid with people!
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