How experience shapes brain specializations

Project Information

NovelExperiSENSE

Grant agreement ID: 773121

DOI

10.3030/773121

Project closed

EC signature date 21 March 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 31 March 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

REICHMAN UNIVERSITY
Israel

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Publications

Conference proceedings (6)

Binaural Sound Source Localization Using a Hybrid Time and Frequency Domain Model

Author(s): Gil Geva, Oliver Warusfel, Shlomo Dubnov, Tammuz Dubnov, Amir Amedi, Yacov Hel-Or
Published in: IEEE ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 8821-8825, ISBN 9798350344851
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10448005

Virtual Self-Training of a Sensory Substitution Device for Blind Individuals

Author(s): Galit Buchs, Benedetta Heimler, Menachem Kerem, Shachar Maidenbaum, Liraz Braun, Amir Amedi
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-1285-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icvr46560.2019.8994662

Persuasive Vibrations: Effects of Speech-Based Vibrations on Persuasion, Leadership, and Co-Presence During Verbal Communication in VR

Author(s): Justine Saint-Aubert, Ferran Argelaguet, Marc Macé, Claudio Pacchierotti, Amedi, Anatole Lécuyer
Published in: 2023 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2023, Page(s) 552-560, ISSN 2642-5254
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/vr55154.2023.00070

A systematic computerized training program for using Sensory Substitution Devices in real-life

Author(s): Ophir Netzer, Galit Buchs, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-1285-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icvr46560.2019.8994518

The Topo-Speech Algorithm: An intuitive Sensory Substitution for Spatial Information

Author(s): Benedetta Heimler, Amir Shur, Ophir Netzer, Tomer Behor, Amir Amedi
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2019, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-7281-1285-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icvr46560.2019.8994658

Standardizing Visual Rehabilitation using Simple Virtual Tests

Author(s): Shachar Maidenbaum, Amir Amedi
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2019, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-1285-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icvr46560.2019.8994431

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Face shape processing via visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates regions within the face processing networks in the absence of visual experience

Author(s): Roni Arbel, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 921321, ISSN 1662-4548
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.921321

Decoding Reach Direction in Early “Visual” Cortex of Congenitally Blind Individuals

Author(s): Łukasz Bola, Petra Vetter, Mohr Wenger, Amir Amedi
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 43(46), 2023, Page(s) 7868-7878, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0376-23.2023

The Topo-Speech sensory substitution system as a method of conveying spatial information to the blind and vision impaired

Author(s): Amber Maimon, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Meshi Ben Oz, Sophie Codron, Ophir Netzer, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2023, Page(s) 1058093, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1058093

Rapid plasticity in the ventral visual stream elicited by a newly learnt auditory script in congenitally blind adults

Author(s): Roni Arbel, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 190, 2023, Page(s) 108685, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108685

Localizing 3D motion through the fingertips: Following in the footsteps of elephants

Author(s): Adi Snir, Katarzyna Cieśla, Gizem Ozdemir, Rotem Vekslar, Amir Amedi
Published in: iScience, Issue 27(6), 2024, Page(s) 109820, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109820

Effects of training and using an audio-tactile sensory substitution device on speech-in-noise understanding

Author(s): Katarzyna Cieśla, Tomasz Wolak, Artur Lorens, Maya Mentzel, Henryk Skarżyński, Amir Amedi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12(1), 2022, Page(s) 3206, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06855-8

Loss of action-related function and connectivity in the blind extrastriate body area

Author(s): Or Yizhar, Zohar Tal, Amir Amedi
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 973525, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.973525

Enhancing interoceptive sensibility through exteroceptive–interoceptive sensory substitution

Author(s): Oran Goral, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Amber Maimon, Adi Snir, Yulia Golland, Aviva Goral, Amir Amedi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14(1), 2024, Page(s) 14855, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63231-4

A Whole-Body Sensory-Motor Gradient is Revealed in the Medial Wall of the Parietal Lobe

Author(s): Noa Zeharia, Shir Hofstetter, Tamar Flash, Amir Amedi
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 39/40, 2019, Page(s) 7882-7892, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0727-18.2019

Shape detection beyond the visual field using a visual-to-auditory sensory augmentation device

Author(s): Shira Shvadron, Adi Snir, Amber Maimon, Or Yizhar, Sapir Harel, Keinan Poradosu, Amir Amedi
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 17, 2023, Page(s) 1058617, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1058617

A case study in phenomenology of visual experience with retinal prosthesis versus visual-to-auditory sensory substitution

Author(s): Amber Maimon, Or Yizhar, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 173, 2022, Page(s) 108305, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108305

Activation of human visual area V6 during egocentric navigation with and without visual experience

Author(s): Elena Aggius-Vella, Daniel Robert Chebat, Shachar Maidenbaum, Amir Amedi
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 33(7), 2023, Page(s) 1211-1219.e5, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.025

Gyrification in relation to cortical thickness in the congenitally blind

Author(s): Isabel Arend, Kenneth Yuen, Or Yizhar, Daniel-Robert Chebat, Amir Amedi
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 970878, ISSN 1662-4548
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.970878

Congenitally blind adults can learn to identify face-shapes via auditory sensory substitution and successfully generalize some of the learned features

Author(s): Roni Arbel, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amedi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12(1), 2022, Page(s) 4330, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08187-z

Testing geometry and 3D perception in children following vision restoring cataract-removal surgery

Author(s): Amber Maimon, Ophier Netzer, Benedetta Heimler, Amir Amir
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2023, Page(s) 962817, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.962817

Integrating mind and body: Investigating differential activation of nodes of the default mode network

Author(s): Inbal Linchevski, Amber Maimon, Yulia Golland, Noa Zeharia, Amir Amedi, Nava Levit-Binnun
Published in: Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Issue 41, 2023, Page(s) 115-127, ISSN 0922-6028
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/rnn-231334