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‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution
Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of v...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033136 |
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author | Striem-Amit, Ella Guendelman, Miriam Amedi, Amir |
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description | Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that congenitally fully blind adults can exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) blindness acuity threshold using SSDs, reaching the highest acuity reported yet with any visual rehabilitation approach. This demonstrates the potential capacity of SSDs as inexpensive, non-invasive visual rehabilitation aids, alone or when supplementing visual prostheses. |
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spelling | pubmed-33063742012-03-21 ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution Striem-Amit, Ella Guendelman, Miriam Amedi, Amir PLoS One Research Article Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that congenitally fully blind adults can exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) blindness acuity threshold using SSDs, reaching the highest acuity reported yet with any visual rehabilitation approach. This demonstrates the potential capacity of SSDs as inexpensive, non-invasive visual rehabilitation aids, alone or when supplementing visual prostheses. Public Library of Science 2012-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3306374/ /pubmed/22438894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033136 Text en Striem-Amit et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Striem-Amit, Ella Guendelman, Miriam Amedi, Amir ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title | ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title_full | ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title_fullStr | ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title_short | ‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution |
title_sort | ‘visual’ acuity of the congenitally blind using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033136 |
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