VIDEO: Hear the sights and feel the sounds!
WATCH! EyeMusic converts visual images into “soundscapes” that activate dormant neural circuits in a blind person’s vision-processing occipital cortex.
Israel 21C 18.09.2022
“With a lot of practice listening to pictures you can train people to see through their ears,” explains Wald.
“A blind person with no previous concept of colors can actually reach a stage where they can pick a green apple from a bowl of red apples. It means the part of the brain used for sight needs to be redefined, and it also shows that our assumptions about brain plasticity after a certain age were incorrect.”
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