Tactile-‘visual’ acuity of the tongue in early blind individuals
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This study compares the 'tactile-visual' acuity of the tongue for 15 early blind participants with that of 24 age-matched and sex-matched sighted controls. Snellen's tumbling E test was used to assess 'visual' acuity using the tongue display unit. The tongue display unit is a sensory substitution device that converts a visual stimulus grabbed by a camera into electro-tactile pulses delivered to the tongue via a grid made out of electrodes. No overall significant difference was found in thresholds between early blind (1/206) and sighted control (1/237) participants. We found, however, a larger proportion of early blind in the two highest visual acuity categories (1/150 and 1/90). These results extend earlier findings that it is possible to measure visual acuity in the blind individuals using the tongue. Moreover, our data demonstrate that a subgroup of early blind participants is more efficient than controls in conveying visual information through the tongue.
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Striem-Amit et al. (2012a) found participants performed better than in experiments with tactile SSDs and retinal prostheses.
“Participants performed better than in experiments with tactile SSDs (Chebat et al., 2007, Sampaio et al., 2001), retinal prostheses (Zrenner et al., 2010) and 55% showed acuity higher than the threshold for blindness (see also Levy-Tzedek, Riemer, & Amedi, 2014).”
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- Authors
- Chebat, D.-R., Rainville, C., Kupers, R., & Ptito, M.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Rigshospitalet (DK)
- Copenhagen University Hospital (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Ptito, Maurice
- Venue
- Neuroreport
- Published
- 2007-12-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 1901-1904
- ISSN
- 0959-4965 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040463736
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroreport (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- tongue, early blindness, sensory substitution, visual acuity testing
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Adult, Afferent Pathways, Blindness, Discrimination Learning, Electric Stimulation, Female, Humans, Hyperesthesia, Functional Laterality, Male, Middle Aged, Neuronal Plasticity, Neuropsychological Tests, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Sensory Aids, Sensory Deprivation, Sensory Thresholds, Somatosensory Cortex, Tongue, Touch, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception
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