Tactile vision: Brain-reorganization in the blind: Implications for learning and adaptive technology
Citation:
Giudice, N.A. (2002). Tactile vision: Brain-reorganization in the blind: Implications for learning and adaptive technology. Seventeenth Annual CSUN International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, March, 2002, Los Angeles, CA.
Abstract:
This paper describes research from our lab about the brain's ability to reorganize (called cross-modal brain plasticity) as a result of blindness. I will begin by discussing cortical brain plasticity in general, show an experiment carried out in our lab that demonstrates tactile processing in visual areas of the brain and finally postulate some ideas on how such cross-modal plasticity may benefit from adaptive technology. In this last section, I will address how our results, and those of other researchers in the field, support the emerging view of the brain as a rapidly modifiable and highly adaptable organ. More specifically, I will speculate about how technology might help to facilitate this remapping and aid in the development of compensatory strategies after sensory loss.
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This paper was written as a
This paper was written as a follow-up to the 2000 Giudice et al. ARVO presentation (below). It linked the cross-modal plasticity evidence from the earlier research with a role for adaptive technology in spatial learning