Objective
One PhiD student can be recruited for three years in order to work on sensory substitution. Sensory substitution is a new concept in Neurosciences. It assumes that the information from a defective sensory system (e.g. vision) can be gathered by an artificial sensor (e.g. a television camera) and "translated" into another physical stimulus that can be used by an intact sensory system (e.g. somesthesy) and carried to the brain via the corresponding pathways (e.g. tactile nerve pathways). The main training of the PhD student will be on the evaluation of the utilization of a sensory substitution device, the Tongue Display Unit (TDU). This is a newly developed human-machine interface that offers the realistic possibility of practical, cosmetically accepted devices for persons with sensory loss such as blindness, and offers a means of exploring late brain plasticity. It addresses stimuli coming from the external environment (e.g. pixellized image) to the (extremely numerous and sensitive) captors of the tongue. It enables the subject to construct representations by direct interaction with the environment through artificial sensory systems ( e.g. a TV camera), the interface, and the pathways from that interface to the brain, Appropriate training leads to brain reorganization.
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- natural sciences biological sciences neurobiology
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors optical sensors
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France
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