Sensory substitution of vision: Importance of perceptual and cognitive processing

Assistive Technology for Blindness and Low Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-191

  Loomis, Jack M ^a   Klatzky, Roberta L ^b,c   Giudice, Nicholas A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

^d University of Maine   (United States)

^e Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI)   (United States)

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