The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
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The vOICe? OIC? Oh I see! Think different: vision for the blind through sound-guided mental imagery. https://x.com/seeingwithsound, feedback@seeingwithsound.com
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Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics #blind #blindness
Spoiler: yes.
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
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A big thank you to all collaborators!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Spoiler: yes.
Can you visualize an image with a filled white square and a horizontal white line running below the square? Next add a white dot above the square?
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Can you visualize an image with a filled white square and a horizontal white line running below the square? Next add a white dot above the square?
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Current state-of-the-art? This was the state of the art for The vOICe vision BCI peer-reviewed and published back in 1992 for several combinations of parameter settings in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution www.seeingwithsound.com/vbme6.html There's more than brain implants...
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Current state-of-the-art? This was the state of the art for The vOICe vision BCI peer-reviewed and published back in 1992 for several combinations of parameter settings in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution www.seeingwithsound.com/vbme6.html There's more than brain implants...
Making the case for sandboxes in implantable neurotechnologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social on #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech, #iBCI
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Making the case for sandboxes in implantable neurotechnologies www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @ieeebrain.bsky.social on #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech, #iBCI
What this world needs is not AI, but empathy, preferably human empathy, and lots of it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What this world needs is not AI, but empathy, preferably human empathy, and lots of it.
(YouTube podcast) Tactile sensory substitution to regain vision and balance www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIJ... with Yuri Danilov, including vision through the tongue with Wicab's BrainPort tongue display; #haptics
Sensory Substitution to Regain Vision and Balance
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November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
(YouTube podcast) Tactile sensory substitution to regain vision and balance www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIJ... with Yuri Danilov, including vision through the tongue with Wicab's BrainPort tongue display; #haptics
To ChatGPT: What are the neural correlates of human visual qualia? chatgpt.com/share/6911de...
ChatGPT - Neural correlates of qualia
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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
To ChatGPT: What are the neural correlates of human visual qualia? chatgpt.com/share/6911de...
(Spotify podcast) Sorry, we left an implant in your brain open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6... Transcript docs.google.com/document/d/1... #BCI #NeuroTech
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
(Spotify podcast) Sorry, we left an implant in your brain open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6... Transcript docs.google.com/document/d/1... #BCI #NeuroTech
Combining Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) stimulation with auditory image-recognition information improves person-finding performance www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*d... #SfN2025
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November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Combining Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) stimulation with auditory image-recognition information improves person-finding performance www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*d... #SfN2025
Generalization of learning arbitrary audiovisual associations via low-level features www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*d... #SfN2025
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November 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Generalization of learning arbitrary audiovisual associations via low-level features www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*d... #SfN2025
Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Object recognition from sparse simulated phosphenes and curved segments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "lower bound estimate on the minimal number of phosphenes needed to recognize objects" in uncluttered views; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Initial recruitment of occipital cortex activation during mental target performance predicts training gain of mental aiming www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... motor imagery practice
Initial recruitment of occipital cortex activation during mental target performance predicts training gain of mental aiming
Motor imagery (MI) practice is increasingly studied for applications in sports and music. However, most existing research has focused on single moveme…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Initial recruitment of occipital cortex activation during mental target performance predicts training gain of mental aiming www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... motor imagery practice
Americans are good at powerplay but that don't impress me. I prefer work with serious academics to resolve a small nummer of remaining issues. The vOICe has set the bar for vaporware www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pewu... Publish new papers without strings attached www.seeingwithsound.com/literature.htm
Bionic vision for the blind: use a brain implant or The vOICe sensory substitution?
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November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Americans are good at powerplay but that don't impress me. I prefer work with serious academics to resolve a small nummer of remaining issues. The vOICe has set the bar for vaporware www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pewu... Publish new papers without strings attached www.seeingwithsound.com/literature.htm
Neuralink scaling? At some point, with growing numbers of Neuralink brain implant recipients, Neuralink will be busier with trying to fix broken implants than with new implants for new patients. If not, where's support? chatgpt.com/share/690a6c...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Neuralink scaling? At some point, with growing numbers of Neuralink brain implant recipients, Neuralink will be busier with trying to fix broken implants than with new implants for new patients. If not, where's support? chatgpt.com/share/690a6c...
If so, my question to mental imagery (neuro)scientists is how we can use this to get better results in mastering sound-guided voluntary mental imagery (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution) for the blind. Please think beyond sticking electrodes into the human brain. #BCI
How visual imagery representations are formed: Through suppression, not activation psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... on voluntary mental imagery
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November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If so, my question to mental imagery (neuro)scientists is how we can use this to get better results in mastering sound-guided voluntary mental imagery (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution) for the blind. Please think beyond sticking electrodes into the human brain. #BCI
How visual imagery representations are formed: Through suppression, not activation psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... on voluntary mental imagery
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November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
How visual imagery representations are formed: Through suppression, not activation psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... on voluntary mental imagery
Neuralink rival #Synchron raises $200 million for brain implant www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (archived at archive.ph/WBhVv) #BCI #NeuroTech #Stentrode
Neuralink Rival Synchron Raises $200 Million for Brain Implant
Synchron Inc. raised $200 million to advance its work building brain implants that doctors can insert through blood vessels, avoiding the costly and high-risk surgeries necessary to install devices ma...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Neuralink rival #Synchron raises $200 million for brain implant www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (archived at archive.ph/WBhVv) #BCI #NeuroTech #Stentrode
To ChatGPT: When comparing invasive electrode-based BCI approaches with phased-array focused ultrasound, which of the two has the best long-term chances of offering clinical benefit in a wide range of mental conditions and sensory impairments? chatgpt.com/share/690d10... #BCI #NeuroTech
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November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
To ChatGPT: When comparing invasive electrode-based BCI approaches with phased-array focused ultrasound, which of the two has the best long-term chances of offering clinical benefit in a wide range of mental conditions and sensory impairments? chatgpt.com/share/690d10... #BCI #NeuroTech
(IEEE Spectrum flashback, 2004) Sight for sore ears - Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind spectrum.ieee.org/sight-for-so...
Sight for Sore Ears
Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind
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November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
(IEEE Spectrum flashback, 2004) Sight for sore ears - Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind spectrum.ieee.org/sight-for-so...
Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"#BCI #NeuroTech
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"#BCI #NeuroTech
TIME: Computer chips in our bodies could be the future of medicine time.com/7330887/brai... (archived at archive.ph/nldjf); #BCI #NeuroTech
Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine
The brain-computer interface is real. It's changing lives—and could soon change the world.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
TIME: Computer chips in our bodies could be the future of medicine time.com/7330887/brai... (archived at archive.ph/nldjf); #BCI #NeuroTech
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I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
Ethical, legal, and sociocultural considerations in neural device explantation: a systematic review www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... Again limited by choice of search terms: nothing "visual" (for blindness) etc; #BCI #NeuroTech #NeuroEthics
Frontiers | Ethical, legal, and sociocultural considerations in neural device explantation: a systematic review
IntroductionImplantable neural devices, including brain–computer interfaces and spinal cord stimulators, hold significant therapeutic promise for conditions ...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Ethical, legal, and sociocultural considerations in neural device explantation: a systematic review www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... Again limited by choice of search terms: nothing "visual" (for blindness) etc; #BCI #NeuroTech #NeuroEthics
#Neuralink is starting a VOICE (no, not The vOICe) clinical study clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT072... VOICE: An early feasibility study of a precise robotically implanted brain-computer interface for communication restoration; #BCI #NeuroTech #speech
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November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#Neuralink is starting a VOICE (no, not The vOICe) clinical study clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT072... VOICE: An early feasibility study of a precise robotically implanted brain-computer interface for communication restoration; #BCI #NeuroTech #speech
Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal reorganization in the brain"
Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted
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November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal reorganization in the brain"