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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
Reuters, January 2026: Neuralink plans 'high-volume' brain implant production by 2026, Musk says www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Neuralink plans 'high-volume' brain implant production by 2026, Musk says
Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink will start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to an entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026, Musk said in a post on...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
Compare this to the recently posted graph of The vOICe for Android cumulative installs from Google Play bsky.app/profile/seei... Still zero Neuralink Blindsight implants in humans. Neuralink ramping up for "high-volume production" in 2026?
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2h
Is #Neuralink showing signs of slowing down? Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through October 2026) chatgpt.com/s/m_6ad27140... #implantable #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech
Graph of Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 5h
After doing a few dozen implants, "field returns" will start to bite Neuralink's business. #BCI #NeuroTech
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 8h
(Dutch) "Ik dacht altijd: blinde mensen weer zicht geven is sciencefiction" archive.ph/8P87t (archived from fd.nl/tech-en-inno...) #Phosphoenix #BCI #gluurbril #blinden
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 10h
You can find HeyCyan-compatible camera glasses on Amazon by searching for "heycyan" www.amazon.com/s?k=heycyan or you can check out the BriteAI glasses from briteai.net
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Amazon.com : heycyan
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h
This might make it hard for ICMS-based as well as optogenetic cortical visual prostheses for the blind to activate the "right" ensembles for meaningful ("specific") imagery encoding of visual input? Thinking of form vision. #BCI #blindness
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13h
Critical scaling of cortical ensembles without cooperative amplification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "coordinated firing increases representational specificity without escaping the critical dynamics governing propagation"; #optogenetics #BCI #neuroscience
Holographic stimulation of hierarchically grouped pyramidal-neuron ensembles in L2/3 of awake mouse V1.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
(LinkedIn) Two new companion apps for use of The vOICe for Android app with cameras or camera glasses connected to a smartphone are being developed by blind users of The vOICe vision BCI, and released as APK files for side-loading www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm... #BCI #AI #blindness
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#blind #accessibility #a11y #noninvasive #bci #blindness #ai | Peter Meijer
Two new companion apps for use of The vOICe for Android app with cameras or camera glasses connected to a smartphone are being developed by blind users of The vOICe vision BCI, and released as APK fil...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14h
(Review) An update on human visual prosthesis: The Claes H. Dohlman lecture 2025 www.ovid.com/jnls/tjop/fu... As usual, noninvasive sensory substitution is missing due to a (too) narrow choice of keywords and key phrases or a (too) narrow definition of vision; #BCI #blindness
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An update on human visual prosthesis: The Claes... : Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology
Abstract:This abstract serves to report on the available evidence on the different retinal and visual prostheses for patients with retinitis...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h
Once you have your feet back on the ground, read this white paper on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html #BCI #blindness
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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 · 15h
(video) Another scripted AI-generated video clip of a Neuralink Blindsight first human brain implant PR event.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15h
(video) Scripted AI-generated animation of a Neuralink Blindsight first human brain implant PR event. Blindsight: rocket mode. Mission: bright object retrieved.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 16h
(YouTube) Now what will Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight first human brain implant PR event look like? www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5p... Tesla SpaceX Roadster event; #BCI #blindness
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Roadster Event
YouTube video by Tesla
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 16h
ChatGPT-generated summary of "Phase Lock" manifesto on brain-computer interfaces and preserving human agency in the age of AI at chatgpt.com/share/6ad088... Full manifesto at phaselock.satpugnet.com
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 16h
What happens when AI can read our minds? archive.ph/3NWbo (archived from www.ft.com/content/45ea...) FT about "Phase Lock", Saturnin Pugnet's manifesto; @satpugnet #AI #BCI
An illustration showing a person in profile wearing a futuristic headpiece, surrounded by abstract technological and scientific graphics.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Rapid emergence of an adaptive spatial representation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @pfapostolides.bsky.social et al; "neural activity rotated into a spatially informative representational subspace, orthogonal to the original binaural axis, within two hours of hearing loss"; #neural #plasticity
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Rapid Emergence of an Adaptive Spatial Representation
Peripheral sensory cue availability fluctuates across timescales ranging from seconds to years. This requires central circuits to continuously adapt their representations while preserving established ...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Really low luminance contrast in combination with substantial chromatic contrast is rare (in fact "accidental"), and local contrast enhancement, HDR (high dynamic range) processing and an optional negative video mode usually suffice.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Of course this assumes that one knows or can guess what color filter to apply (although one can auto-cycle color filters if desired, option "Analyze"). Without any color filter, contrast is much more limited.
Screenshot of The vOICe for Android
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Screenshot of The vOICe for Android with the color filter for red toggled on (key 'r', or menu Options | Color filter | red), and viewing the colored left part of the image in the preceding post. Filtered image showing near the top right of the screen play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Screenshot of The vOICe for Android
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Detecting and localizing objects with color-contrast with a second-generation (44-channel) suprachoroidal retinal prosthesis tvst.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... "A color-contrast algorithm may assist retinal prosthesis users with detecting and localizing objects"
Color-only contrast (low-contrast in grayscale). (A) The object and background for the color-only contrast in color and in (B) grayscale.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
(LinkedIn) Two new companion apps for use of The vOICe for Android app with cameras or camera glasses connected to a smartphone are being developed by blind users of The vOICe vision BCI, and released as APK files for side-loading www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm... #BCI #AI #blindness
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#blind #accessibility #a11y #noninvasive #bci #blindness #ai | Peter Meijer
Two new companion apps for use of The vOICe for Android app with cameras or camera glasses connected to a smartphone are being developed by blind users of The vOICe vision BCI, and released as APK fil...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
TIME: The Best Inventions of 2026 - Science Corporation PRIMA, "A vision-restoring retinal implant" time.com/collection/b... "These patients can read again, [and] see faces of their loved ones" (i.e. read extremely slowly, while not recognizing faces).
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Science Corporation PRIMA: The Best Inventions of 2026
Find out why Science Corporation PRIMA is on TIME's list of 2026's best inventions.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
TIME: The Best Inventions of 2026 - Science Corporation PRIMA, "A vision-restoring retinal implant" time.com/collection/b... "These patients can read again, [and] see faces of their loved ones" (i.e. read extremely slowly, while not recognizing faces).
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Science Corporation PRIMA: The Best Inventions of 2026
Find out why Science Corporation PRIMA is on TIME's list of 2026's best inventions.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Actually any check. Write texts, code etc yourself and let AI review it afterward. Thus you keep full agency and skills, while AI sometimes has something useful to say.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We need you! www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm
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The science behind The vOICe vision BCI
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe. Note: the graphical illustration is in part AI-generated.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reference-assisted decoding of sparse tactile codes through active sequential exploration: Time costs and similarity-driven errors in a low-resolution vibrotactile interface www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #haptics
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Reference-Assisted Decoding of Sparse Tactile Codes Through Active Sequential Exploration: Time Costs and Similarity-Driven Errors in a Low-Resolution Vibrotactile Interface
Low-resolution tactile interfaces often require users to identify spatial codes through active sequential exploration, but the interaction costs and error structures of reference-assisted sparse-co...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Science Corp reports first sign PRIMA works in an inherited eye disease insidebci.com/news/2026-10... Not disclosed if Stargardt patient "could read with the implant's glasses switched off".
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Science Corp reports first sign PRIMA works in an inherited eye disease | Inside BCI
Science Corporation said on 13 October 2026 that the first patient with Stargardt disease, a rare inherited cause of central vision loss, to receive its PRIMA retinal implant saw a letter in his first...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How approval changes with new Trump's diesel deal with Russia will show if the American people have moral values: prices down, approval up or down?
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ChatGPT: "Excluding an established, noninvasive, camera-based sensory substitution technology from functional artificial-vision benchmarks risks producing an incomplete—and potentially misleading—picture of the benefits of invasive interventions." #BCI #blindness
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
To ChatGPT: The vOICe vision BCI's noninvasive sensory substitution deserves inclusion in independent, functional comparisons of other (invasive) artificial vision technologies such as brain implants and retinal implants for restoring vision to the blind. chatgpt.com/share/6acf4a...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Based on the phosphene shape set from the paper doi.org/10.64898/202... I tried to let ChatGPT render a plausible-looking phosphene image of a chair as seen from multiple viewpoints, but had a hard time doing so chatgpt.com/share/6acfc3... #BCI #blindness
Simulated phosphene image of a chair as seen from multiple viewpoints.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
See also the earlier post bsky.app/profile/seei...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics arstechnica.com/science/2026... with @dpsyc42.bsky.social; "connections within each brain network weakened, connections between networks strengthened", "gap between eyes-open and eyes-closed connectivity shrank by 85 percent"
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One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Compare this to the spatiotemporal perceptual consistency of The vOICe vision BCI: "vOICePhenes"
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Intracortical microstimulation evokes diverse electrode-specific phosphenes in the early visual cortex of blind individuals www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... "Phosphenes ranged from simple dots to elongated, textured, circular, or otherwise idiosyncratic forms." #ICMS #BCI #blindness
Representative phosphenes reported during single-electrode stimulation reconstructed from participant tablet drawings. Numbers indicate stimulated electrode IDs. P1 typically reported point-like percepts; P2 reported rectangular percepts with internal line structure; P3 reported a range of electrode-specific shapes; and P4 reported circular or partial circular percepts against a red visual background.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Would a person with Stargardt disease, already equipped with optimized low-vision aids, talking OCR and AI assistance, gain enough additional independence and quality of life from PRIMA to justify its full lifetime costs and medical risks?"
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ChatGPT: "Routine reimbursement of the PRIMA retinal implant for Stargardt disease would be difficult to justify on the evidence currently available."
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
To ChatGPT: Would reimbursement for the PRIMA retinal implant for treating Stargardt disease make sense? chatgpt.com/share/6acf70... #BCI #blindness
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Clinical trial update: First patient with Stargardt disease using PRIMA science.xyz/news/stargar... by Science Corporation.
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Clinical Trial Update: First Patient With Stargardt Disease Using PRIMA (Video) | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
(YouTube) Blind Russian user of The vOICe vision BCI in 2017 reading the word "АПТЕКА" (pharmacy) from a whiteboard www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvj0...
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Russian user of The vOICe vision BCI in 2017 reading the word "АПТЕКА" (pharmacy) from a whiteboard
YouTube video by seeingwithsound
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hearing shapes: the Bouba–Kiki effect in adult domestic dogs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... "Our results suggest that a spontaneous sound–shape association akin to that of humans is also present in adult domestic dogs."
Visual stimuli representing the rounded shape (on the left) and the spiky shape (on the right).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Terahertz liquid networks: a mesoscopic passive architecture for circumventing physical deadlocks in brain-computer interfaces pubs.rsc.org/na/article/d... using injectable plasmonic nanoparticles as free-floating relay nodes; #BCI #NeuroTech
Visual abstract
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Arousal-informed neuronal avalanches operate near criticality www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @simonschultz.bsky.social et al.; "Our results reveal how the awake brain tunes parallel near-critical subnetworks to support robust sensory computation." More info in the thread bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Arousal-informed neuronal avalanches operate near criticality
Cortical networks are thought to operate near a "critical point" that optimizes information processing, but this has been difficult to test at single-cell resolution across large brain areas, as narro...
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
TechCrunch: Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/s... The company "believes people will eventually need some kind of BCI by the age of 60 or 70."
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Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient | TechCrunch
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The vOICe vision BCI's AI depth view option applied to a snapshot from the YouTube video: can be useful for blind obstacle detection and localization play.google.com/store/apps/d... The vOICe for Android from Google Play: Options menu | AI depth view; #noninvasive #BCI
Screenshot of The vOICe for Android running in AI depth view mode (Options menu | toggle AI depth view).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Keep in mind that reading with a retinal implant is painfully slow as compared to using talking OCR or a screen reader for the blind bsky.app/profile/seei... Scanning the view
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
(YouTube) Science Corporation: First patient with Stargardt disease using PRIMA retinal implant www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBk... #BCI #blindness
Snapshot from Science Corporation's YouTube video, with a computer display showing a rising white line that The vOICe vision BCI would represent with a rising tone.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Cells tell why artificial sensations fade bioniclab.substack.com/p/cells-tell... by @bioniclab.bsky.social in the "Why BCIs fail series"; #BCI #neuroscience
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Cells tell why artificial sensations fade
Location, Location, Location!
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "both blindness and years of musical training predicting a reduction in internal noise"
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Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise
Although it is commonly assumed that early blind individuals have enhanced pitch perception, the literature to date has been contradictory. We measured performance on two tasks known to recruit early ...
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