Cross-Modal Brain Plasticity in Congenital Blindness: Lessons from the Tongue Display Unit

The tongue display unit (TDU) is a sensory substitution device that translates visual information into electrotactile stimulation that is applied to the tongue. Blind subjects can learn to use the TDU in various visual tasks, including orientation, motion and shape identification, and spatial naviga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ron Kupers, Maurice Ptito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-10-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/ic748