Can we create new senses for humans?

Can a blind person come to see through her tongue? What would it be like to smell with the nose of a dog? How can we perceive streams of information that are normally invisible to us? And what does any of this have to do with pilots or Westworld or tinnitus or friendly fire or a wristband with vibratory motors? We don’t detect most of the action going on in the world around us… and today we’ll explore how technology might change that.

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Eagleman DM (2020). Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. New York: Pantheon.

Eagleman DM, Perrotta MV (2023). The future of sensory substitution, addition, and expansion via haptic devices. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.;16:907. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.1055546

Perrotta MV, Kohler I, Eagleman DM (2023). Bimodal stimulation for the reduction of tinnitus using vibration on the skin. International Tinnitus Journal. 27(1):01-05. DOI: 10.5935/0946-5448.20230001

Perrotta MV, Asgeirsdottir T, Eagleman DM (2021). Deciphering sounds through patterns of vibration on the skin. Neuroscience. 458: 77-86.

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