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Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN) for Vision Impairment Research connects people with visual impairments & vision impairment researchers https://sites.google.com/view/open-vi-research/
Happy #InternationalGuideDogDay to our friends at @guidedogsuk.bsky.social and to all the wonderful canine helpers who support blind and partially sighted people!
More optional highlights: Join us for dinner and/or a guided tour at UNESCO heritage sites: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral. Book an excursion to Beamish, the Living Museum of the North. Or pay a visit to our beautiful Botanic Garden For more info see: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
International Multisensory Research Forum@imrf.bsky.social · last yr.Hi pals, our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
She is finally published. Small sample but valuable insights. We've been studying audio-haptic integration in sighted and early- vs. late-blind (EB/LB) people. EB integrate optimally, while LB don't (likely switch cues). Here, we're exploring the neural mechanisms of audio-haptic integration...
The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺@seeingwithsound.bsky.social · last yr.Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @meike-scheller.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.
Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @meike-scheller.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.
Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals
The ability to reduce sensory uncertainty by integrating information across different senses develops late in humans and depends on cross-modal, senso…
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How can we make #evolution education truly inclusive? Join our next EvoKE Webinar “Biodiversity for Belonging” with Telma G. Laurentino, as she shares 5 years of multisensory outreach breaking barriers in science education. 📅May 2nd, 2025 |4pm CET / 10am EST 🔗 bit.ly/3EopIvw
EvoKE Webinar: Telma G. Laurentino
2nd May 2025 4PM CET/10 AM EST Telma G. Laurentino Informal Educator Attend webinar at EvoKE webinars are held on the first Friday of every month at 4 PM CET/10 AM EST (check&…
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Check it out - New research summary on Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network sites.google.com/view/open-vi...
OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Recent Research Summaries
Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network
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See here for a thread about our recent publication on the Online Participant Engagement Network for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social
OPEN for Vision Impairment Research@openviresearch.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to share our open access paper on enhancing research involvement for UK adults with vision impairment via our online interface! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share our open access paper on enhancing research involvement for UK adults with vision impairment via our online interface! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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(2022) A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @alealisousa.bsky.social @orlinst.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social
A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function
Research on the origin of vision and vision loss in naturally “blind” animal species can reveal the tasks that vision fulfills and the brain's role in…
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Nice story by Livia Dyring on human echolocation in today's online edition of "The Otter". Pleased to see a mention of our fMRI work on the activation of primary visual cortex (V1) by echoes in expert blind echolocators. theotter.ca/seeing-with-...
If you would like to advertise recruitment for a VI study you are conducting, Research Registration form here. sites.google.com/view/open-vi...
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Advertise your study If you would like to advertise recruitment for a study you are conducting, please fill out the Research Registration form below.
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New paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social
Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women - Sara Dell’Erba, Meike Scheller, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Michael J. Proulx, 2024
Introduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or p...
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Our paper on Visual impairment, visual media exposure, and body image -- I am catching up here 🦋
Michael Proulx @michaelproulx.bsky.social · 2y agoNew paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social