Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Sensory substitution reveals a manipulation bias

  • Anja T. Zai,
  • Sophie Cavé-Lopez,
  • Manon Rolland,
  • Nicolas Giret,
  • Richard H. R. Hahnloser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19686-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The challenge of sensory substitution as a therapeutic approach is to design systems that are well accepted by subjects. Here, in deaf songbirds, the authors substitute hearing with vision, suggesting substitution devices could provide sensory feedback for the key actions that are deprived.