The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Neuralink Blindsight or The vOICe? Visualize the soundscapes ahead of source image appearance!

Any #hyperphantasiacs here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug... Sound-guided mental imagery, #hyperphantasia

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? www.nature.com/articles/d41... "People with #aphantasia are offering brain scientists a window into consciousness."

Photo of text document, in Russian.

And the annotated document after Vadim Artsev won the Neurothlon 2018 contest wearing The vOICe vision glasses, apparently completing the tasks in 49 seconds.

ARVO Foundation: 2026 Oberdorfer awardee recognized for outstanding research in low vision rehabilitation www.arvo.org/news/2026-ob... Gislin Dagnelie, Argus II retinal implant, ICVP brain implant (intracortical visual prosthesis)

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn - MIT McGovern Institute When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons...

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn (well, as mice learn) mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/02/25/n... "the brain can deliver neuron-specific feedback during learning"; #neuroscience

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses (in mice) www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @gutlin.bsky.social; "After daily sound exposure, neural habituation in the primary auditory cortex (A1) was reversed by inactivating the OFC." #neuroscience

The ‘secret connections’ of the brain: a connectomic reserve for neuroplasticity? Using the vast network of connections of commissural neurons as an example, Lent et al. propose that expanded brain circuits may constitute a “connectomic

The 'secret connections' of the brain: a connectomic reserve for neuroplasticity? academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... #neuroscience #hypothesis

Reality Is a Shared Hallucination—And It’s at Risk of Collapsing, Scientist Claims When that happens, it can lead to some truly disturbing outcomes.

Reality is a shared hallucination—and it's at risk of collapsing, scientist claims www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

Hopefully the AI bubble will soon burst

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Argus II retinal implants and The vOICe sensory substitution vision glasses at Neurothlon 2018

YouTube playlist of Russian training activities at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYce...

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell - Nature Communications Whether and how gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli (GENUS) has a role in antiepileptogenesis is not fully understood. Here authors show that GENUS reduces seizure susceptibility in male mice. The...

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ChatGPT - Controlled Hallucination and Sensory Substitution Shared via ChatGPT

To ChatGPT: Explain how reality as a controlled hallucination (@anilseth.bsky.social) relates to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. chatgpt.com/share/69a20b...

Photo of text document, in Russian.

For historians: document listing the two blind recipients of an Argus II retinal implant of Second Sight Medical Products and one blind user of The vOICe vision glasses participating at the Neurothlon 2018 contest in Samara, Russia, won by the user of The vOICe. #BCI #NeuroTech

Photos taken of live video stream session

March 2, 2018, live video stream from my living room with Moscow to attend a training session of Vadim Artsev, blind user of The vOICe vision glasses in Russia. Later that year Vadim beat the only two Argus II retinal implant recipients in Russia at the Neurothlon 2018 contest.

Blind and low vision users can struggle with the motions required by most 3D design tools. A11yShape means to change that. spectrum.ieee.org/3d-modeling-...

Brain Chip Implant: Visually Impaired Korean YouTuber Applies for Musk’s Clinical Trial - MK Oneshot Hansol, a visually impaired YouTuber (32, real name Kim Hansol), has applied to take part in a clinical trial run by Neuralink, the company led by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk.On February 7...

[hype alert] Brain chip implant: visually impaired Korean YouTuber applies for Musk's clinical trial www.mk.co.kr/en/culture/1... Kim Hansol (OneshotHansol) on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qS... #Neuralink #Blindsight #BCI #NeuroTech

Frontiers | Attention to speech modulates distortion product otoacoustic emissions evoked by speech-derived stimuli in humans Humans are remarkably skilled at understanding speech in noisy environments. While segregation of different audio streams is mostly accomplished in the audit...

Attention to speech modulates distortion product otoacoustic emissions evoked by speech-derived stimuli in humans www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Generalization and extinction of learned fear alter primary sensory input to the brain (of mice) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Could the government-induced mess in US research (NIH funding etc) give some researchers the temporary freedom to pursue - under the radar - whatever they like, without all the grant-writing overhead? I'd really welcome fresh input on mental imagery engineering... artificialvision.com/literature.htm

ChatGPT - Controlled Hallucination and Sensory Substitution Shared via ChatGPT

To ChatGPT: Explain how reality as a controlled hallucination (@anilseth.bsky.social) relates to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. chatgpt.com/share/69a20b...

Pulfrich - Ganzflicker experience page www.seeingwithsound.com/ganzflicker....

YouTube video by Essentia Foundation Reality Is A Controlled Hallucination | Anil Seth

(YouTube) Your brain is a dream machine | Anil Seth on the neuroscience of active inference www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUo... That's what sensory substitution for the blind is tapping into: we see with the brain, not the eyes (Paul Bach-y-Rita).

FDA Approval Opens New Doors for Depression Treatment Could a simple headset be the future of depression treatment? Discover how tDCS is changing the game for mental health care.

IEEE Spectrum: At-home brain stimulation for depression is just the start spectrum.ieee.org/flow-neurosc... "Flow's headset is the first tDCS device approved by the FDA", "a noninvasive, nondrug treatment option for depression that can be self-administered in the home"; #BCI #NeuroTech

AI-generated image of a blind woman holding a white package labeled "Neuralink Blindsight", looking worried or sad.

Sparring with ChatGPT AI: Pretend that you are Elon Musk, and you see that The vOICe is a formidable noninvasive competitor for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. What would you do? chatgpt.com/share/69a079... 🤔

Decoding of images from simulated VSD signals

A machine learning-based decoder framework for the cortical voltage-sensitive dye responses to retinal neuromorphic microstimulation: A proof-of-concept simulation study www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/13... Seizure risks not accounted for, nor receptive field sizes, etc; #ICMS #BCI #NeuroTech

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

💪🏻 BBC: Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards www.bbc.com/news/article...

Seeing without eyes: Relation between visual mental imagery and visual hallucinations Visual mental imagery (VMI) refers to the ability to “see with the mind’s eye”, in the absence of adequate sensory input, while visual hallucinations …

Seeing without eyes: relation between visual mental imagery and visual hallucination www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Both "share a hyper-functioning of visual associative areas."

More on brain implants for the blind and The vOICe sensory substitution at www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

AI-generated image of a blind woman holding a white package labeled "Neuralink Blindsight", looking worried or sad.

Sparring with ChatGPT AI: Pretend that you are Elon Musk, and you see that The vOICe is a formidable noninvasive competitor for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. What would you do? chatgpt.com/share/69a079... 🤔

Decomposition of retinal ganglion cell electrical images for cell type and functional inference Decomposition of retinal ganglion cell electrical images for cell type and functional inference, Wu, Eric G, Rudzite, Andra M, Bohlen, Martin O, Li, Peter H, Kling, Alexandra, Cooler, Sam, Rhoades, Colleen, Brackbill, Nora, Gogliettino, Alex R, Shah, Nishal P, Madugula, Sasidhar S, Sher, Alexander, Litke, Alan M, Field, Greg D, Chichilnisky, E J

Decomposition of retinal ganglion cell electrical images for cell type and functional inference (2025) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Useful "for developing future electronic implants that can restore vision."