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This project focuses on developing training techniques for blind individuals to enhance their spatial perception and navigation skills. By leveraging mental imagery to engage the visual cortex, the project aims to improve the effectiveness of navigation methods like sensory substitution and echolocation.
At the moment, in the European Union, there is very little support and virtually no training for blind people.
But there are veryefficient modes of navigating one’s environment that blind people can learn and some of them can learn very easily,including: (1) Cone use, (2) Sensory substitution devices, (3) Echolocation.The problem is that the interpersonal variation in all these three techniques is huge.
Some blind subjects pick up thesetechniques very quickly and use them efficiently, while othe…
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