Chapter 1—restoring vision to the blind: the new age of implanted visual prostheses
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Recent Advances in Cortical StimulationThe earliest multielectrode prosthesis for vision was on the surface of a patient's visual cortex in July of 1967, and was an array of flat electrodes, embedded in silicone, and activated wirelessly through transdermal radio transmission (Brindley & Lewin, 1968).This implant demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the visual system could produce light percepts (phosphenes) with reliable location, shape, and size; however, it was inconveniently bulky, required high currents, occasionally caused pain upon stimulation, and was unable to produce sufficient coverage of the visual space for useful http://tvstjournal.org/
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- Science, T. L. I. I. F. I. I. V. S. T. L. I. I. F. I. I. V.
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
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- Keywords
- visual prosthesis, cortical stimulation, retinal prosthesis, phosphenes, microelectrode arrays, blindness
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