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Still betting on your Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision? www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Or Cortigent Orion, or ReVision Implant Occular, or Paradromics cortical visual prosthesis? #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
What can the achievable effective frame rate of a visual cortical prosthesis be, given the effects of perceptual fading and long-lasting inhibition with intracortical microstimulation (ICMS)?
Grok: x.com/i/grok/share... => 3-5 fps
ChatGPT: chatgpt.com/share/69962d... => 3–10 fps
Grok: x.com/i/grok/share... => 3-5 fps
ChatGPT: chatgpt.com/share/69962d... => 3–10 fps
What can the achievable effective frame rate of a visual cortical prosthesis be, given the effects of perceptual fading and long-lasting inhibition with intracortical microstimulation (ICMS)?
The effective frame rate of a visual cortical prosthesis, accounting for perceptual fading (which occurs with continuous stimulation lasting over 1 second) and long-lasting inhibition (typically 100-200 ms post-stimulation, limiting response to subsequent stimuli), is limited to approximately 3-5 Hz. This allows for distinct perceptual updates without significant blending or suppression, based on clinical data showing minimum interstimulus intervals of 250-330 ms for separate phosphene perceptions. Higher rates (e.g., 10-20 Hz) have been used for sequential dynamic tracing of forms, but for full-frame refreshes, the rate drops to prevent interference from inhibition and adaptation.
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February 18, 2026 at 9:37 PM
What can the achievable effective frame rate of a visual cortical prosthesis be, given the effects of perceptual fading and long-lasting inhibition with intracortical microstimulation (ICMS)?
Grok: x.com/i/grok/share... => 3-5 fps
ChatGPT: chatgpt.com/share/69962d... => 3–10 fps
Grok: x.com/i/grok/share... => 3-5 fps
ChatGPT: chatgpt.com/share/69962d... => 3–10 fps
Motion perception with visual prostheses iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Motion Perception with Visual Prostheses
Motion Perception with Visual Prostheses, Renshaw, Kai T., Pezaris, John S.
iopscience.iop.org
February 18, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Motion perception with visual prostheses iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Blindsight Simulator github.com/Satoshi88818... Stand-alone python script by James Squire to simulate visual experience through cortical and retinal visual prostheses a la Cortigent Orion or Neuralink Blindsight; #phosphenes
February 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Blindsight Simulator github.com/Satoshi88818... Stand-alone python script by James Squire to simulate visual experience through cortical and retinal visual prostheses a la Cortigent Orion or Neuralink Blindsight; #phosphenes
Evaluation of lipid nanoparticles as vehicles for optogenetic delivery in primary cortical neurons www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/18... Hence using a non-viral vector; potential for visual cortical prostheses?
www.mdpi.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Evaluation of lipid nanoparticles as vehicles for optogenetic delivery in primary cortical neurons www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/18... Hence using a non-viral vector; potential for visual cortical prostheses?
Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset #deafness (in cats) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset deafness - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset deafness
www.nature.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset #deafness (in cats) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
Here's how you'll control and navigate Android XR glasses 9to5google.com/2026/02/16/a... #smartglasses
Here's how you’ll control and navigate Android XR glasses
Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here’s what you can expect from the user interface and experience...
9to5google.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Here's how you'll control and navigate Android XR glasses 9to5google.com/2026/02/16/a... #smartglasses
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🔬 Using live imaging, the team showed that 10-Hz stimulation does not trigger harmful inflammation. Instead, it boosts microglial "surveillance," causing them to specifically seek out and contact neurons that are struggling or showing "depressed" activity.
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
🔬 Using live imaging, the team showed that 10-Hz stimulation does not trigger harmful inflammation. Instead, it boosts microglial "surveillance," causing them to specifically seek out and contact neurons that are struggling or showing "depressed" activity.
Meta's Manus #AI about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Occular, PRIMA, and The vOICe visionrestor-jrwyzpdl.manus.space It boasts a "Comprehensive comparative analysis of invasive implants and non-invasive sensory substitution." Actually unimpressive, with glitches (links that do nothing).
Vision Restoration Technologies: A Comparative Analysis
An interactive research report comparing Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant, and other vision restoration technologies for the blind
visionrestor-jrwyzpdl.manus.space
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Meta's Manus #AI about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Occular, PRIMA, and The vOICe visionrestor-jrwyzpdl.manus.space It boasts a "Comprehensive comparative analysis of invasive implants and non-invasive sensory substitution." Actually unimpressive, with glitches (links that do nothing).
About the Argus II and IRIS II retinal implants for the blind: "It is often only by pairing the new information from the implant with other senses - auditory cues - that the individual is able to make any sense of it."
What do blind people "see" with retinal prostheses? Observations and qualitative reports of epiretinal implant users https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229189
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 AM
About the Argus II and IRIS II retinal implants for the blind: "It is often only by pairing the new information from the implant with other senses - auditory cues - that the individual is able to make any sense of it."
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This and other publications based on use of or benchmarking of The vOICe sensory substitution technology for the blind www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm
With many thanks to all the researchers and authors! Sound-guided mental imagery engineering will be the next frontier.
With many thanks to all the researchers and authors! Sound-guided mental imagery engineering will be the next frontier.
February 5, 2026 at 9:15 AM
This and other publications based on use of or benchmarking of The vOICe sensory substitution technology for the blind www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm
With many thanks to all the researchers and authors! Sound-guided mental imagery engineering will be the next frontier.
With many thanks to all the researchers and authors! Sound-guided mental imagery engineering will be the next frontier.
Neural vision restoration in ophthalmology link.springer.com/article/10.1... "restore visual perception through retinal prostheses, optic nerve and thalamic implants, cortical brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), optogenetics, and non-invasive stimulation"
February 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Neural vision restoration in ophthalmology link.springer.com/article/10.1... "restore visual perception through retinal prostheses, optic nerve and thalamic implants, cortical brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), optogenetics, and non-invasive stimulation"
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What will blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be able to do that they cannot do with smartglasses performing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, talking OCR and AI scene description?
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 AM
What will blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be able to do that they cannot do with smartglasses performing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, talking OCR and AI scene description?
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phenomenal experiences can be given objective, third-person characterization"; #qualia #perception
The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness
The Sensorimotor Theory is a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phenomenal experiences can be given obje…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phenomenal experiences can be given objective, third-person characterization"; #qualia #perception
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Deadline coming up!
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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February 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Deadline coming up!
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.
Name Tag: Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-r... "Meta was hesitant to unveil Name Tag at a conference for the blind last year."
Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses
The controversial technology could roll out as soon as this year.
www.engadget.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Name Tag: Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-r... "Meta was hesitant to unveil Name Tag at a conference for the blind last year."
How psychedelic drugs affect the brain www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02... "High-resolution brain imaging reveals that psychedelics suppress external visual processing and instead drive visual areas to access the retrosplenial cortex, [...], thereby generating hallucinations."
How Psychedelic Drugs Affect the Brain
Research findings reinforce new approaches in psychology, using psychedelic substances under medical supervision to treat certain clinical conditions.
www.sflorg.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
How psychedelic drugs affect the brain www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02... "High-resolution brain imaging reveals that psychedelics suppress external visual processing and instead drive visual areas to access the retrosplenial cortex, [...], thereby generating hallucinations."
Any #NeuroAI models out there that can make sensible predictions about mastering crossmodal perception (vision) using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? I suspect not: out-of-distribution reasoning is really hard for AI. #LLM #AI #CompNeuro #neuroscience
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Any #NeuroAI models out there that can make sensible predictions about mastering crossmodal perception (vision) using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? I suspect not: out-of-distribution reasoning is really hard for AI. #LLM #AI #CompNeuro #neuroscience
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ChatGPT pretty well captures (understands?) how spoken AI live view description acts as a semantic complement to noninvasive "raw" vision for the blind using The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) chatgpt.com/share/698c2c... More on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm...
ChatGPT - AI for Live Visual Descriptions
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 AM
ChatGPT pretty well captures (understands?) how spoken AI live view description acts as a semantic complement to noninvasive "raw" vision for the blind using The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) chatgpt.com/share/698c2c... More on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/posts/peterm...
The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has a grim forecast of what's going to happen next futurism.com/health-medic... by @joeonhere.bsky.social; "If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights." #LLM #AI
The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What's Going to Happen Next
Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard has a grim warning about the "cognitive debt" accrued by scholars who use AI.
futurism.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has a grim forecast of what's going to happen next futurism.com/health-medic... by @joeonhere.bsky.social; "If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights." #LLM #AI
The Fusiform Imagery Node: where vision meets concepts in the left temporal lobe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @institutducerveau.bsky.social @jianghaoliu.bsky.social @alfredospagna.bsky.social; mental imagery #neuroscience
February 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
The Fusiform Imagery Node: where vision meets concepts in the left temporal lobe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @institutducerveau.bsky.social @jianghaoliu.bsky.social @alfredospagna.bsky.social; mental imagery #neuroscience
What will blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be able to do that they cannot do with smartglasses performing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, talking OCR and AI scene description?
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 AM
What will blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be able to do that they cannot do with smartglasses performing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, talking OCR and AI scene description?
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
Grok AI: x.com/i/grok/share...
From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Perceptual reps in posterior neocortex, spatial coherence by hippocampus, integrative processes in vmPFC; mental imagery #neuroscience
From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events
Mental events are fundamental to daily cognition, including the recollection of past experiences, the anticipation of future scenarios, and engagement in imaginative, fictitious thought. Typically, th...
journals.plos.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM
From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Perceptual reps in posterior neocortex, spatial coherence by hippocampus, integrative processes in vmPFC; mental imagery #neuroscience
CNN: AI researchers are sounding the alarm on their way out the door edition.cnn.com/2026/02/11/b...
AI researchers are sounding the alarm on their way out the door | CNN Business
“The world is in peril,” warned the former head of Anthropic’s Safeguards Research team as he headed for the exit. A researcher for OpenAI, similarly on the way out, said that the technology has “a po...
edition.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
CNN: AI researchers are sounding the alarm on their way out the door edition.cnn.com/2026/02/11/b...
Memristor synapse - a device-level critical review www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/16... "explore future directions for memristor synapses in healthcare, including artificial cognitive retinal implants"
www.mdpi.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Memristor synapse - a device-level critical review www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/16... "explore future directions for memristor synapses in healthcare, including artificial cognitive retinal implants"