Pigeons lock their eyes in place during flight www.cell.com/current-biol... multisensory alignment

Pigeons lock their eyes in place during flight

Ros et al. show that pigeons (Columba livia) reduce eye movements and fix their eyes in a stereotypical position within their heads during both indoor and outdoor flights. This stereotypical eye posit...

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With Chinese company Z.ai’s #GLM5.2 open-weight model providing cheap AI access to software developers, have U.S. tech companies lost their AI edge?spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-as...ic

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round technode.com/2026/08/03/s... ~$50 million for 主动科技 ("Active Technology"); #implantable #BCI #NeuroTech

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round · TechNode

Shanghai-based brain-computer interface startup Active Technology (our translation of 主动科技, the company’s Chinese name) has completed a RMB330 million

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A map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @rocco-chiou.bsky.social et al.; "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of left LPC; mental imagery

A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex

The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but...

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Bistable haptic textiles for immersive somatosensory augmentation and sensory substitution www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Bistable haptic textiles for immersive somatosensory augmentation and sensory substitution - Nature Sensors

A textile-based bistable soft-pneumatic haptic interface enables full-body multimodal tactile feedback for immersive virtual environments, tactile communication and assistive sensory substitution appl...

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Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of #synesthesia elifesciences.org/articles/110... Physiologically measurable phenomenology: "responses emerged too rapidly to reflect imagery"; #qualia

Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

Synesthetes' pupils reflect the brightness of colors that they only see internally, making their hidden perceptual experience objectively measurable.

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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted bioniclab.substack.com/p/my-mentor-...

🎯 To the trainees and early-career PIs reading rejection letters this month: failure is how we innovate.

Randy Pausch put it best.

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(YouTube) Unboxing your #BCI www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moh_... Plug into your living mouse for unspecified animal experiments, by Science Corp.

How to set up your SciFi

YouTube video by Science

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What's consistently wrong with news media? "No one will be blind ever again: Elon Musk's Neuralink is set to bring vision to humankind" www.republicworld.com/tech/no-one-...

No One Will Be Blind Ever Again: Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Set To Bring Vision To Humankind

Elon Musk announced that Neuralink will implant the first vision devices within 12 months to restore sight by stimulating the visual cortex, and eventually enable “superhuman” vision including infrare...

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In October 2016, I was asked to help build Neuralink. I said no. bioniclab.substack.com/p/in-october... "Why BCIs Fail series: looking beyond the season finale", by @bioniclab.bsky.social; #lifetime #BCI #NeuroTech

🇺🇸 In October 2016, I Was Asked to Help Build Neuralink. I Said No.

Why BCIs Fail Series: Looking Beyond the Season Finale

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[OT] The biggest gamble in the U.S. economy is starting to look riskier archive.ph/lmKbU "The fates of the economy and millions of retirement accounts are entangled with a giant bet on artificial intelligence by leading tech firms."

Most news media merely regurgitate press releases without any research of their own: it's cheap in more than one sense. This way, the originators of the press releases control the narratives that suit them best.

Job position for a software engineer at Neuralink Next Gen for working on robotic arms (CONVOY), visual prostheses (Blindsight), and medical imaging data pipelines www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/so...

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers link.springer.com/article/10.3... "altered spatial cognition in blindness enhances gesture precision"

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Co-speech gestures emerge from the interaction between visuospatial experience and speech formulation, but what happens when visual experience is absent from birth? Blind individuals gesture in ways c...

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The total lack of benchmarking reports seems indicative for the lack of maturity and transparency of the visual prosthesis field. Everyone acts as if nothing else exists or only refers to past failures.

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺@seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 2w ago

(LinkedIn) Competition for Science Corp.'s PRIMA retinal implant for AMD from China: Nanochap Electronics www.linkedin.com/posts/as-we-...

Seeing anew: mechanisms, outcomes, and challenges in adapting to restored sight via visual prostheses www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #BCI #blindness

Seeing Anew: Mechanisms, Outcomes, and Challenges in Adapting to Restored Sight via Visual Prostheses

Restoring vision through prosthetic devices represents one of the most ambitious frontiers in translational neuroscience. Despite decades of progress,…

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John Pezaris: "One thing that we are learning as a field is that our idea that any level of artificial vision is better than being blind, and therefore crude devices are worth developing, is not shared by the blind community."

Diagnostic features predicted by deep learning improve human object recognition in simulated prosthetic vision iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Cortical visual prostheses are "constrained by the limited number of simultaneously elicitable phosphenes"; #BCI #blindness

The vOICe vision BCI is to implantable visual prostheses what open weight AI models are to cloud-based AI behemoths like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini: often good enough (if not better) at vastly lower cost, and no one can take it away from you.

Butterfly Network conference call: "There is this thing in DCI called the butcher factor, which is, you know, how many neurons do I have to kill before I get to the neuron I want to talk to?" www.fool.com/earnings/cal... on electrode-based #BCI #NeuroTech

Butterfly (BFLY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool

Butterfly (BFLY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Fascinating sounding study!! The hippocampus teaches V1 about statistical regularities in sensory inputs? #neuroskyence

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***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

The Retina TL;DR with Dr. Weng: restoring central vision in geographic atrophy with PRIMA and Frank Brodie, MD, MBA www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/the-ret... "ability to read letters and numbers", "PRIMA vs Argus II"; on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3_P...

Subretinal implant for geographic atrophy (ft. Frank Brodie, MD) | The Retina TL;DR with Dr. Weng

YouTube video by Eye Care Network | Ophthalmology & Optometry

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Some archived AI model responses to questions relating to vision for the blind, brain implants for restoring vision, visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (The vOICe) www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/inde... ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Consensus, Perplexity, ... #BCI #blindness

Evaluating closed-loop EEG feedback for simulated prosthetic vision in immersive VR: a sham-controlled feasibility study arxiv.org/abs/2607.23889 Would it benefit noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution?

What about privacy guarantees? Network connectivity loss? Availability after bankruptcy? Network-adaptive cloud processing for visual neuroprostheses arxiv.org/abs/2602.13216 Network-adaptive cloud preprocessing for visual neuroprostheses bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #EMBC2026

Network-Adaptive Cloud Processing for Visual Neuroprostheses

Cloud-based machine learning is increasingly explored as a preprocessing strategy for next-generation visual neuroprostheses, where advanced scene understanding may exceed the computational and energy...

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Reading comments, on Facebook, to the New Scientist article about Science Corp.'s PRIMA retinal implant does not give the impression that there will be a sustainable market www.facebook.com/newscientist... The market for visual prostheses is extremely tough. Another Argus II cycle in the making?

Reformatted the list of scientific publications based (in part) on use of The vOICe vision BCI: now mostly APA style where DOI is known artificialvision.com/literature.htm

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI

Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

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About incentives: cool (but questionable) narratives bring more ad revenue and political support than facts and critical thinking.

STAT: 'Cochlear implant for blindness' debuts in Europe, could launch in U.S. in 2027 archive.ph/6oXvO "Second Sight's failures have been instructive, Hodak said.", "Training can take months to unlock its full potential", just for slow reading? #PRIMA retinal implant, #BCI

A deep learning framework for EEG-Based decoding of visually imagined arrows with different colors and directions www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/16... mental imagery