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Hi Vince,

> Is there any background reading on the international project you mentioned?

Not that much. I have appended the project description.

Peter


Artificial Synesthesia for Synthetic Vision
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/asynesth.htm


Plasticity in the human cerebral cortex:
From synaesthesia to sensory substitution in the blind

Bewilligung: 24.03.2005 Laufzeit: 3 Jahre

Binding together of information within and between the senses plays
an important role in normal perception of the world, and for such
integration to cope with changing relationships between sensory stimuli,
the neural mechanisms responsible must be plastic. In this project
the phenomenon of synaesthesia will be studied, which can be viewed
as "pathological" example of integrative processes. In addition to
studies on normal and blind synaethetes the work will be extended
to "implicit" synaesthetes with highly reproducible idiosyncratic
sensory association but no conscious experience of the associated
stimulus. Psychophysical approaches will be used to discover whether
new implicit synaesthetic linkages can be learned, and a full range
of neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MEG, EEG, TMS) to distinguish
between the possible pathways that mediate both the normal cross-modal
interactions and synaesthesia. The results should lead to a better
understanding of normal and unusual functional connectivity in the
human brain, and should contribute to our knowledge of cortical
plasticity and its dynamics in the normal, the excessively cross-wired
and the visually deprived brain.

Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie II
Professor Dr. Petra Stoerig

F. C. Donders Center for Cognitive
Neuroimaging
Professor Peter Hagoort

University of Oxford
Laboratory of Physiology
Professor Colin Blakemore


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