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I love telling people about that study. It's so cool. And when they removed the glasses, in roughly the same span of time their vision returned to normal. Reall
by kakarot 9y ago
I love telling people about that study. It's so cool. And when they removed the glasses, in roughly the same span of time their vision returned to normal. Really makes you wonder about the potential negative impact of certain sensory augmentation during adolescent development, such as glasses or hearing aids, and how we could possibly avoid such negative effects.
I don't know why other similar sensory studies haven't been done. For example, trying to rewire the nervous stimulus system, such as trying to make a peripheral touch stimulus on one part of the body register with your proprioceptive system as a different part of the body, or inverting the inferred location of a sound with special headphones and feedback.
- jon_richards 9y ago>For example, trying to rewire the nervous stimulus system, such as trying to make a peripheral touch stimulus on one part of the body register with your proprioceptive system as a different part of the body. Oh wow. This could be huge for prosthetics, especially the robotic ones controled by muscle movements. I wonder if it's already been attempted.
- jrace 9y agohttps://www.physio-pedia.com/Mirror_Therapy https://www.physio-pedia.com/Mirror_Therapy The principle of mirror therapy (MT) is the use of a mirror to create a reflective illusion of an affected limb in order to trick the brain into thinking movement has occurred without pain. It involves placing the affected limb behind a mirror, which is sited so the reflection of the opposing limb appears in place of the hidden limb [1].
- kakarot 9y agoYeah, this is what came to mind. What I'm thinking of is similar but is more about testing a hypothesis than providing therapy. Also related: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/touching-illusions-2008-05/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/touching-illusion...