Pattern recognition using a device substituting audition for vision in blindfolded sighted subjects
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A major question in the field of sensory substitution concerns the nature of the perception generated by sensory substitution devices. In the present fMRI study, we investigated the neural substrates of pattern recognition through a device substituting audition for vision in blindfolded sighted subjects, before and after a short training period. Before training, pattern recognition recruited dorsal and ventral extra-striate areas. After training, the recruitment of these visual areas was found to have increased. These results suggest that visual imagery processes could be involved in pattern recognition and that perception through the substitution device could be visual-like.
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- Authors
- Poirier, C., De Volder, A., Tranduy, D., & Scheiber, C.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Scheiber, C.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1108-1121
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2071069422
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 1.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion)
- Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Conseil Régional d'Alsace
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- sensory substitution, pattern recognition, visual imagery, extrastriate cortex, dorsal stream, ventral stream, training effects
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Discrimination Learning, Humans, Imagination, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reference Values, Sensory Deprivation, Vision, Ocular, Pattern Recognition, Physiological
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