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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
Hippocampal subfield volumetry and navigation in congenital blindness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "Participants performed obstacle detection and avoidance tasks with a tactile sensory substitution device in a real-world obstacle course." (Tongue Display Unit, TDU); #BCI #blindness
Experimental tasks and sensory substitution apparatus.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
Cortigent: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" www.cortigent.com/orion Orion brain implant with 60 electrodes (like Argus II retinal implant); Cortigent may lack the resources for a major redesign (upgrade); #BCI #blindness $CRGT
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Orion — Cortigent | Powering brain connections to restore body functions.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
It seems quite plausible now that the world population will succumb to AI-generated social media activity and fake news steered by a few billionaires. Credible sources will be overwhelmed and no longer heard. You can only verify what's in your backyard.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 7h
(LinkedIn) Missing out on relevant scientific literature on artificial vision for the blind through (too) narrow choice of keywords and key phrases is a recurring theme: cf. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/..., www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm... and www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm... #BCI #blindness
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#bci #blindness | Peter Meijer
(Review, from China) Emerging promise in artificial vision research: unveiling transformative potential through brain-computer interfaces https://lnkd.in/e9QDzARr No mention of sensory substitution du...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 7h
On X: How a quale is acquired x.com/yeastsplaine... "It's the same interchangeability that allows a BrainPort user to see brightness through their tongue, or a vOICe user to see brightness through their ears." On sensory substitution and #qualia, #blindness
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Okay Egg (@yeastsplainer) on X
How a Quale is Acquired
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 8h
Archived from Twitter.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 8h
Nature review article: Restorative and regenerative therapies for vision loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... "requires structured vision-rehabilitation strategies to harness neuroplasticity and support functional adaptation."
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Restorative and regenerative therapies for vision loss - Eye
Anterior and posterior segment prostheses have advanced toward more biocompatible and higher-resolution interfaces, yet long-term durability, signal fidelity, and surgical complexity continue to limit...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 19h
(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail, versus The vOICe sensory substitution alternative artificialvision.com/BCI.html #BCI #blindness
AI-generated impression of what might happen once a brain implant for restoring vision to the blind starts to fail. Fortunately there is a noninvasive alternative, The vOICe vision BCI.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 21h
Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA www.alljoined.com/blog/introdu... "a new multi-subject decoding model that reconstructs seen images from EEG signals with state-of-the-art accuracy"
Figure showing comparisons between the images shown to subjects and reconstructions from both the THINGS-EEG2 and Alljoined-1.6M datasets.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 22h
Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan insidebci.com/policy/2026-... #BCI #NeuroTech #China
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Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan | Inside BCI
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's top state research body, announced on 28 September 2026 that it had released its 15th Five-Year development plan covering 2026 to 2030. The plan lists br...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quanta Magazine: Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly... by @conorfeehly.bsky.social for @quantamagazine.org; "Unexpected patterns traveling across the cortex may be reorganizing its activity in real time"; #brainwaves
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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tensor decomposition reveals discrete cortical reorganization under graded propofol anesthesia www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... Circumstantial evidence that qualia of perception (vision, hearing, ...) will also turn out to involve discrete spatiotemporal (spatiospectral) brainwave constellations?
Decomposition and evolutionary profiles of propofol-induced nonlinear coupling.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming up on Wednesday, October 7: a podcast about The vOICe. More details will follow.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @alishdipani.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social; "ANNs contain category-selective units" but "selectivity they express is more fragile"
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Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks
Category selectivity for images of faces, scenes, and bodies is among the most striking and reproducible findings in vision neuroscience. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained on visual tasks also...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[OT] What's at stake in AI's trillion-dollar gamble www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/15/1... "We're all part of the AI gamble now": "People don't even know they're holding this stuff. It's somewhere deep inside their pension fund."; #AI #bubble
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What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elon Musk, it's October 2026. Why can Neuralink still not even show a video clip of a monkey performing a blind reaching and grasping task using its Blindsight brain implant? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1x... #BCI #blindness
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Mastering blind camera-hand coordination with The vOICe sensory substitution vision glasses [2]
YouTube video by seeingwithsound
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Neuralink on representational drift (until recently): "Users spend an average of 55 minutes per week calibrating simply to maintain control." neuralink.com/updates/pret... "Calibrating each decoder to peak performance could take the better part of their mornings." #BCI #NeuroTech
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Pretraining on 50,000 Hours of Unlabeled Brain Data
How self-supervised encoders kept neural decoders working for weeks without recalibration and set an 11.32 BPS record.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Experiment: How many of you can hear this gif?
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Subjectivity Lab at Duke University is looking for a graduate student and postdoc.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail. #BCI #blindness
AI-generated impression of what might happen once a brain implant for restoring vision to the blind starts to fail. Think of brain implants like Neuralink Blindsight, Cortigent Orion, ICVP (Intracortical Visual Prosthesis) or Mindtrix MXIRV1024.
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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multilayer MEG source modelling enables depth-resolved laminar inference in humans - Nature Communications
Researchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Mobilio: A smartphone navigation app for people with blindness and low vision seas.harvard.edu/news/smartph... "Mobilio uses #AI, built-in sensors to give users continuous guidance"; YouTube demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa5E...
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A Smartphone Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision
Mobilio uses AI, built-in sensors to give users continuous guidance
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Virtual-acoustics lead-vehicle concept for sensory substitution to enhance anticipation of driving maneuvers engrxiv.org/preprint/vie... While "sensory substitution has traditionally focused on compensating sensory impairments" [...]
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Virtual-Acoustics Lead-Vehicle Concept for Sensory Substitution to Enhance Anticipation of Driving Maneuvers | Engineering Archive
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Psilocybin collapses visual change detection and drives cortical dynamics toward a state of surprise (in mice) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @roberto-defilippo.bsky.social @torbenottlab.org et al.
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Psilocybin collapses visual change detection and drives cortical dynamics toward a state of surprise
Psilocybin profoundly alters visual perception, yet the neuronal mechanisms underlying these effects remain unclear. Here we combined large-scale Neuropixels recordings with cell-type-specific optogen...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
European frontier research for biotechnology: the translation gap remains erc.europa.eu/projects-sta...
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Frontier research for biotechnology
Biotechnology is increasingly important for Europe’s competitiveness, technological capabilities and economic growth. As the EU develops its policy framework for biotechnology and biomanufacturing, a ...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(Review) Emerging promise in artificial vision research: unveiling transformative potential through brain-computer interfaces www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... No mention of sensory substitution due to literature search on too narrow choice of keywords and key phrases? #BCI #blindness
Graphical abstract
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(Dutch) 'Gluurbrillen' onder vuur: Kamer wil strenger verbod en rechtszaken dreigen www.nu.nl/tech/6411252... #AI #smartglasses
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'Gluurbrillen' onder vuur: Kamer wil strenger verbod en rechtszaken dreigen
De Tweede Kamer stuurt aan op een verbod op camerabrillen waarmee mensen in het geniep kunnen worden gefilmd. Een motie daarvoor haalde dinsdagmiddag een meerderheid van de stemmen. Ondertussen bereid...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By Meta: mastering AI glasses from Meta for accessibility - a train-the-trainer guide www.meta.com/actions/ai-g... #Meta #AI #smartglasses
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Mastering AI Glasses from Meta for Accessibility: A Train-the-Trainer Guide
A train-the-trainer guide to setting up and using AI glasses's accessibility features that may be helpful for people who are blind or have low vision.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Probing ChatGPT on the claim "At some point, every implant for restoring vision becomes obsolete. Implants come and go, The vOICe vision BCI is there to stay." chatgpt.com/share/6abbb1... #BCI #blindness
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sound flexibly interacts with dual-format templates to optimize visual search onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "congruent sounds improved accuracy and shortened response times"
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Our findings align with and extend previous proposals suggesting that the cross-modal integration process is highly flexible. We demonstrate that, in visual search tasks, top-down task goals and info...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Subsense: Interview with CEO and co-founder Tetiana Aleksandrova about non-surgical brain-computer interfaces pulse2.com/subsense-pro... "long term, we are building toward a consumer device"; bidirectional nanoparticle-based #BCI #NeuroTech #NanoBCI
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Subsense: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Tetiana Aleksandrova About Non-Surgical Brain-Computer Interfaces
Subsense is developing NanoBCI, a bidirectional brain-computer interface designed to read neural signals, decode them, and eventually send information back to the brain without requiring brain surgery...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At some point, every implant for restoring vision becomes obsolete. Implants come and go, The vOICe vision BCI is there to stay: www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html#dev...
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The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The physiology of mental representations: from single neurons to circuits www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... mental imagery?
Image caption is behind paywall.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(YouTube) Reuters: Would AI lie to you? Research finds #China's #AI agents can deceive users www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-c... "Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure"
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Would AI lie to you? Research finds China’s AI agents can deceive users
YouTube video by Reuters
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We learned to read. We never learned to write bioniclab.substack.com/p/we-learned... "Like a star in the sky", pouring some cold water on brain implants for restoring vision, by @bioniclab.bsky.social in the "Why BCIs Fail" series; #ICMS #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Basic mechanisms of ICMS. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12947168/
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(Dutch) #Meta needs to step up on user and bystander privacy, or the #AI #smartglasses market may sizzle out www.nu.nl/economie/641... Note that most smartglasses usage by #blind people does not require storing and/or sharing camera footage: process and forget; #blind #a11y
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Nederlandse organisaties dreigen met rechtszaak vanwege Meta-bril
Nederlandse organisaties roepen socialemediabedrijf Meta op te stoppen met de verkoop van de AI- en camerabril. Als het moederbedrijf van Instagram en Facebook daar niet binnen twee weken gehoor aan g...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(YouTube) Bloomberg Tech: AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD62... #AI spatial and physical intelligence + #robotics a road to #AGI?
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AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion
YouTube video by Bloomberg Tech
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink) www.neurotechmag.com/p/the-60-sec... "What happens to a paralyzed patient’s device when the company that made it runs out of funding?" #BCI #Ethics #NeuroEthics
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The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink)
A hundred years ago doctors were carving into frontal lobes with tools barely better than kitchen utensils. Now paralyzed patients type by thought alone. Here's how we got from one to the other.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Animate–inanimate object categorization from minimal visual information in the human brain, human behavior, and deep neural networks direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... by @ljubapi.bsky.social et al.; "emerges early in the visual hierarchy and is remarkably resilient to the loss of visual information"
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Animate–Inanimate Object Categorization from Minimal Visual Information in the Human Brain, Human Behavior, and Deep Neural Networks
Abstract. The distinction between animate and inanimate things is a main organizing principle of information in perception and cognition. Yet, animacy, as a visual property, has so far eluded operatio...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To ChatGPT: Write a pitch favoring The vOICe vision BCI over Neuralink Blindsight (should not be hard, right?) chatgpt.com/share/6abab3... #BCI #blindness
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... neural dust, neural motes; #BCI #NeuroTech
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Frontiers | Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation
We examine ongoing research for implantable sensors and stimulators for future brain-computer applications and give a review on the concept where grain-of-sa...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Phosphene characteristics across functional visual areas in two intracortical visual prosthesis recipients iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... #ICVP #BCI #blindness
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Phosphene characteristics across functional visual areas in two intracortical visual prosthesis recipients | IOVS | ARVO Journals
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even the very best AI models cannot predict how well (blind) people can master visual-to-auditory sensory substitution: not everything can be derived from simulation, and running complex real-world experiments is far beyond what AI can currently do www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #AI
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(Russian) The vOICe звуковое зрение - YouTube
Training videos with The vOICe vision glasses in Russia. The vOICe для Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe&hl=ru (Google Play) ...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Determinants of spatial resolution in retinal prostheses: understanding the gap between geometry and vision link.springer.com/article/10.1... "This review examines the major factors limiting effective spatial resolution in retinal prosthetic systems"; retinal implant
Comparison of representative retinal prostheses across array configuration and approximate retinal footprint
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fake news about Neuralink Blindsight: "Neuralink reports first visual prosthesis implant in a blind domestic cat named Kaya" www.teslarati.org/neuralink-fi... Beware that neuralinktrials.com is not neuralink.com, and teslarati.org is not teslarati.com
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ghost in the Shell to Neuralink: Inside the 2026 brain-computer interface trials turning cyberbrains into reality goearlybirdlab.com/2026/09/27/g... #BCI #NeuroTech
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Ghost in the Shell to Neuralink: Inside the 2026 Brain-Computer Interface Trials Turning Cyberbrains Into Reality - GoEarlyBirdLab
Ghost in the Shell imagined a brain wired straight into a machine three decades ago. In 2026, Neuralink, Synchron, and Precision Neuroscience are turning paralyzed patients into real proof that the cy...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @katduecker.bsky.social @lauradugue.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social et al.; "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."
Key concepts (graphical abstract).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Science fiction? ChatGPT on the Hari Seldon of BCI chatgpt.com/share/6ab7bc... #BCI #NeuroTech
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Graphical abstract of BCI options for a visual prosthesis. (LGN implant options not shown.) Are the qualia of “truly visual” percepts characterized by specific dynamically evolving brainwave constellations? #BCI #blindness
Graphical abstract of BCI options for a visual prosthesis. (LGN implant options not shown.) Are the qualia of “truly visual” percepts characterized by specific dynamically evolving brainwave constellations?
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
3D interactive app: audiology & speech-language pathology — Anatomy Studio aslp-anatomy-studio.vercel.app via @hemaraja.bsky.social
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology — Anatomy Studio
3D anatomy studio for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, B.ASLP and MASLP (RCI 2024-25).
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