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Sensory Substitution Devices
Laurent Renier, Anne De Volder
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Abstract
Sensory substitution refers to the use of one sensory modality (e.g., hearing) to supply environmental information normally gathered by another sense (e.g., vision) while still preserving some of the key functions of the original sense. For example, the use of auditory signals might give information about visual scenes. The development of sensory substitution devices has profoundly changed the classical definition of sensory modalities and contributed to the emergence of a form of