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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Chinese eye hospital reports the country's first retinal-pathway visual implant in a blind patient neurotechguide.org/news/china-first… retinal implant, #BCI #blindness "A 66-year-old woman blinded by retinitis pigmentosa […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Genetically modified cones rescue visual function in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… "Gene therapy can restore retinal signals absent since birth in animal models, yet the translation to humans remains challenging." "After […] [Original post on mas.to]

Experimental paradigm and predicted cortical outcomes of gene therapy.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Both the Android version play.google.com/store/apps/details?… and the web version www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/we… of The vOICe vision BCI support Chinese. 用你的耳朵看！ #noninvasive #BCI #blindness

Screenshot of The vOICe for Android, in Chinese language mode.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10h

(PDF) "Development or production of brain computer interfaces, including invasive, partially invasive, non-invasive, and hybrid systems that enable interaction between the brain and its environment, as well as associated software;" public-inspection.federalregister.g…

Excerpt from US Treasury PDF document, bottom part reading "(s) Development or production of brain computer interfaces, including invasive, partially invasive, non-invasive, and hybrid systems that enable interaction between the brain and its environment, as well as associated software;"

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

(flashback) Photo with Igor Trapeznikov, Vadim Artsev and Xing Chen, at Neurothlon 2018, now 8 years ago, in Russia www.facebook.com/trapeznikovip/post… The vOICe vision #BCI, #blindness

Russian text: Познакомились на #Нейротлон с Xing Chen (Синг Чен), одна из сфер ее интересов - создание кортикального протеза для восстановления зрения у слепых. Было интересно узнать об этом. А потом вместе с Вадимом рассказывали о звуковом зрении и наших тренировках, очень интересные вопросы задает Xing Chen. Спасибо Peter Meijer за контакт, мы нашли друг друга. (IMG_20181013_145430.jpg)

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Why phosphenes are not always dots: modeling the shapes elicited by intracortical stimulation of human V1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 96 electrode Utah array, brain implant, visual cortex, pulse2percept, #BCI #blindness Both local and […] [Original post on mas.to]

Simulated phosphenes provide a close match to patient drawings.

Both local and distal stimulation can result in complex percepts. Electrode A is located on a pinwheel discontinuity, and locally stimulates neurons tuned for both 30 and 120 degrees. Electrode B directly stimulates neurons primarily tuned to 30 degrees, but also stimulates passing axons from two regions, Bi and Bii, containing neurons tuned for 120 degrees. Right panels: virtual model predictions of elicited phosphenes. Bi shows the prediction when the distal stimulation is 1.0mm distant from the electrode, and Bii shows the prediction when the distal stimulation is 2.5mm distant. Even at a distance of 2.5mm the phosphene generated through axonal stimulation largely overlaps with the phosphene generated by local stimulation.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Screenshot of The vOICe for Android running in AI depth view mode, showing and sounding the first-person view of the plant in front of the blind person, as seen by the camera in his camera glasses. No CBS-hallucinated cat nor illusory visual noise.

Screenshot of The vOICe for Android running in AI depth view mode (Options menu | toggle AI depth view). Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

A blind user of The vOICe vision BCI would in the AI-generated example scene hear the leaves of the plant (real object), but not the CBS-hallucinated cat nor the illusory visual noise.

AI-generated example scene, but now without the CBS-hallucinated cat and illusory visual noise.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

The use of auditory cues with the ICVP implicitly makes a strong case for using brain implants for vision in combination with The vOICe vision BCI for general veridical feedback on what is being perceived ("seen") with the implant, at least during visual rehabilitation training.

AI-generated image: A blind recipient of a visual cortical prosthesis is confused and uncertain whether a certain visual percept is real (veridical) or resulting from Charles Bonnet hallucinations or visual noise.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

High-density recording and microstimulation of the macaque lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/2150… "median detection threshold was 23 µA across 15 electrodes with successful psychometric fits"; #SfN2026 […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Critical scaling of cortical ensembles without cooperative amplification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… "coordinated firing increases representational specificity without escaping the critical dynamics governing propagation" This might […] [Original post on mas.to]

Holographic stimulation of hierarchically grouped pyramidal-neuron ensembles in L2/3 of awake mouse V1.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

What happens when AI can read our minds? archive.ph/3NWbo (archived from www.ft.com/content/45ea3dd0-080d-49…) FT about "Phase Lock", Saturnin Pugnet's manifesto; #AI #BCI

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mas.to]

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on mas.to]

Chinese blind lady wearing AI-designed smart glasses for The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Generated by AI.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Based on the phosphene shape set from the paper doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.05.26364412 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 […] [Original post on mas.to]

Simulated phosphene image of a chair as seen from multiple viewpoints.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Intracortical microstimulation evokes diverse electrode-specific phosphenes in the early visual cortex of blind individuals www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… "Phosphenes ranged from simple dots to elongated, textured, circular, or […] [Original post on mas.to]

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Hearing shapes: the Bouba–Kiki effect in adult domestic dogs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/art… "Our results suggest that a spontaneous sound–shape association akin to that of humans […] [Original post on mas.to]

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Terahertz liquid networks: a mesoscopic passive architecture for circumventing physical deadlocks in brain-computer interfaces pubs.rsc.org/na/article/doi/10.1039… using injectable plasmonic […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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/details?… 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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

(YouTube) Science Corporation: First patient with Stargardt disease using PRIMA retinal implant www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBkq6kEYP8 Keep in mind that reading with a retinal implant is painfully slow as compared to using talking OCR or a screen reader for the […] [Original post on mas.to]

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

(2025) Spatiotemporal properties of cortical excitatory and inhibitory neuron activation by sustained and bursting electrical microstimulation www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S258… "Electrodes in visual cortex disrupted circuits, but #ICMS still […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Smart navigation for visual prostheses in virtual reality: An end-to-end framework for priority-based scene translation and path guidance arxiv.org/html/2610.05772v1 No mention of sensory substitution; retinal implant simulation, #VR #AI #BCI #blindness #phosphenes #PRIMA

The detailed system pipeline showing the end-to-end data flow from scene acquisition to phosphene map generation.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

(GitHub) SightBridge - Android app for generating a live MJPEG video stream with USB cameras github.com/pranavlal/sightbridge by Pranav Lal and compatible with The vOICe for Android's MJPEG input on same device using the URL localhost:8080/mjpeg #blind […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The vOICe vision BCI depends on third-party academic studies as well as on blind end users for establishing credibility and demonstrating functional benefit. There is no funding for clinical studies tied to the project itself. In other words, we need you! […] [Original post on mas.to]

Functional MRI of brain activity during a sensory substitution task, in Functional MRI of sensory substitution in the blind (2018) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7794024/figure/F1/

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

(YouTube) Somewhat similar to the ICVP demo of reaching for a pill at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvB1lX0sOI…, we had 16 years ago, back in June 2010, a blind participant in an SBIR phase I evaluation study on The vOICe reach for a paperclip on the floor […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

(YouTube) #ICVP study: participant experience, science and Q&A www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvB1lX0sOI Chyvonne Blanchard shares her experience participating in the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) study. Reaching and grasping example at 1624s […] [Original post on mas.to]

Snapshot from the video, showing reaching for a plate, with explanation by Philip Troyk.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

(podcast) The vOICe featured in podcast 2640 "Seeing with sound using vOICe" by Eyes On Success: MP3 download link www.eyesonsuccess.net/bin/dlc3.php?… and Show Notes at www.eyesonsuccess.net/show%20notes/…

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Graph of The vOICe for Android cumulative installs from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/details?… in the past 6 months.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Out of curiosity I imported the top left photo from the paper's Figure 2 into The vOICe for Android running in AI depth view mode (closer = brighter = louder), and made a screenshot.

Photo (left) and screenshot of The vOICe for Android (right).

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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." […] [Original post on mas.to]

Experimental tasks and sensory substitution apparatus.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The main contender for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind is not yet another brain implant, but something entirely different that is 100% biocompatible, noninvasive, affordable and scalable www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html #BCI #blindness

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

(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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA www.alljoined.com/blog/introducing-… "a new multi-subject decoding model that reconstructs seen images from EEG signals with state-of-the-art accuracy" ENIGMA: EEG-to-image in 15 minutes […] [Original post on mas.to]

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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Tensor decomposition reveals discrete cortical reorganization under graded propofol anesthesia www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuros… Circumstantial evidence that the qualia of perception (vision, hearing, ...) will […] [Original post on mas.to]

Decomposition and evolutionary profiles of propofol-induced nonlinear coupling.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

(image) 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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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

(Review) Emerging promise in artificial vision research: unveiling transformative potential through brain-computer interfaces www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… No mention of sensory substitution due to literature search on too […] [Original post on mas.to]

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The physiology of mental representations: from single neurons to circuits www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com… mental imagery?

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 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 TK Kozai 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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Determinants of spatial resolution in retinal prostheses: understanding the gap between geometry and vision link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s… "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.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/… "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Electrodeposited biocompatible coatings for 3D electrodes on retinal prostheses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… by Daniel Palanker et al.; retinal implant, #PRIMA

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

From multisensory integration to synaesthesia: a boundary-preserving continuum and research framework www.frontiersin.org/journals/psycho… #multisensory #synesthesia

Boundary-preserving continuum of synaesthesia and related phenomena. The continuum ranges from ordinary multisensory integration and shared cross-modal correspondences to cultural/metaphorical and trained synaesthesia-like mappings and, at the most diagnostically specific end, congenital, developmental, acquired, or highly stable synaesthesia. The arrow indicates increasing evidential demands rather than a necessary developmental progression.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Medial temporal default mode network selectively encodes autobiographical visual imagery www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.… mental imagery, MT-DMN

Identifying visual information structure in fMRI data scanned during autobiographical imagination.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

(video) It might here just be an AI's "artist's impression", but it is also conceivable that Mindtrix aims for a scanning approach analogous to The vOICe, now to minimize seizure risk by stimulating only a small number of electrodes in V1 at a time. Excerpt from […] [Original post on mas.to]

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