The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺

The vOICe? OIC? Oh I see! Think different: vision for the blind through sound-guided mental imagery,

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://t.co/usdQuAeSbM #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

"There will be a "training phase" in which subjects will be exposed (and respond) to spatiotemporally congruent pairs of visual-auditory stimuli presented within their blinded field"; no mention of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? https://t.co/NkJdYPeuWd

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Clinical trial: #Multisensory rehabilitation of vision loss after cortical damage https://t.co/DXfPqh7h4k "evaluate the functional recovery of vision in hemianopic (blindness in one hemifield) and quadrantanopic (blindness in one quadrant) patients"; #hemianopia #blindness

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

@DrJGiddensRN Implantable BCIs for motor problems (due to spine trauma, ALS, etc) are very promising, but BCIs for vision are very different.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

@DrJGiddensRN Perhaps for the better. Most neuroscientists and vision experts would agree that benefit of current vision BCIs remains questionable at best. The honeymoon effect of seeing blobs of light wears off. Functional vision is likely extremely limited.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

(YouTube, 2010) Paul Bach-y-Rita on the Brain Machine Interface https://t.co/wNvN6Tboqh #BMI #BCI #blind

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

"We don't see with our eyes, we see with our brain" - Paul Bach-y-Rita https://t.co/IhYYk4vXSz

[Stéphane Deny @StphTphsn1]

👁️ "Filter, Detector, Predictor: The expanding repertoire of retinal computation in vertebrates", by M.B. Manookin & F. Rieke (Jun 2026)

🔗 https://t.co/YzMJpJOcFj

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

(YouTube) #BCI without opening the skull, the race with China, and the 2040s | Tom Oxley, Synchron https://t.co/RL8PYDhttO with Thomas Oxley (@tomoxl), CEO of Synchron (@synchroninc), via @VelcoDar

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

[OT] FT: #SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI - Triple C score puts Elon Musk's company on par with Russia after 2022 invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/GJWgHuiKMN (archived at https://t.co/xD5xVSQ6W1) #Starlink #xAI

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they're not good https://t.co/kjj4L9uxU8 (archived at https://t.co/HFbIoidIJu) Similar risks for blind people relying on smartglasses for AI scene description, where hybrid skills matter for long-term resilience and agency.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

@chrisgrayson That phone example is cute! I haven't pursued lucid dreams since 80s - now mostly interested in it as an example brain state with vivid visual imagery that I'd love to harness for sound-guided mental imagery for the blind, while awake of course: veridical mental imagery = vision.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

@UCBInfo Thanks, good to know! As you know my expectations are far lower, so for the benefit of many I hope to be proven wrong.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Today, 7 years ago.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Lucid dreaming is fascinating for its vividness and visual realism, but sound-guided mental imagery may have more immediate practical applications (for the blind). Can the human brain learn new tricks and even switch states as in awake vs asleep, now for veridical hallucinations?

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up https://t.co/Dh91MxH6Ii via @DrCatharineY; easy under the current Trump-led US administration

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Sound waves could power a new kind of chip inspired by the human brain https://t.co/XLY4dNj6G4 #BCI #NeuroTech

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Topological acoustic synapse for high-dimensional neuromorphic computing https://t.co/FSwGDKbFk0 "at least an order of magnitude less power than state-of-the-art electrical devices", "a scalable paradigm for neuromorphic hardware with high computational density"; #AI

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

More in the thread https://t.co/ycHF4jEHHy

[TK Kozai (BIONICLab.org) @BIONIC_Lab]

🧮 We built a computational model that predicted which electrode channels would fail in human BCI participants before they failed.
The mouse data isn't misleading. The biology of failure is the same in humans, and now we can map it.

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail https://t.co/5LE9mtZqCS by @BIONIC_Lab in the "Why implantable BCIs fail" series; #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech

[IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum]

How do you photograph a light pattern using just one atom and an "optical tweezer"? These researchers think their approach could help see inside a quantum computer’s vacuum chamber. https://t.co/igCEJBPjlL

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

@chrisgrayson Yes, that is one of the known techniques to up the odds of having a lucid dream. What you do in daily life carries over in your dreams. Long ago I read books on lucid dreaming by Stephen LaBerge.