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Restoring Lost Functions: Seeing With the Tongue
Many disabled people live in soundless and sightless worlds. In psychological research, endeavors have been made to combine the workings of sensory systems with technical advances in bioengineering, resulting in sensory prosthetic devices that provide sensory input that can substitute for what cannot be provided by a person’s sensory receptors (Patil & Turner, 2008).
One device is Paul Bach-y-Rita’s device, which is a tactile tongue-based, electrical input sensor that converts digitized stimuli from a camera to an array of electrodes, which stimulate tactile receptors in the tongue to communicate spatial information to the brain (2004).
My paper will investigate whether the tongue is the best suitable organ to provide detailed, high-resolution input of visual stimuli. My paper will also delve into the sensory and neural mechanisms involved with Bach-y-Rita’s stimulator as a substitute for visual input through working with the tactile receptors in the tongue.
To put my research question into words, to what extent can a sensory artificial system, such as Bach-y-Rita’s device, compensate for blindness? Furthermore, is there any room for more advancement? In addition to helping the blind, can this device have other practical applications for people living with normal vision, in pitch-black, hazy or smoky environments, for example?
References
Bach-y-Rita, P. (2004). Tactile sensory substitution studies. In M. C. Roco & C. D. Montemagno (Eds.), The coevolution of human potential and converging technologies. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Patil, P. G., & Turner, D. A. (2008). The development of brain-machine interface neuroprosthetic devices. Neurotherapeutics, 5, 137-146. doi: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.11.002
Simpaio, E., Maris, S., & Bach-y-Rita, P. (2001). Brain plasticity: “Visual” acuity of blind persons via the tongue. Brain Research, 908, 204-207. doi: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02667-1
REQUIREMENTS:
This paper is a RESEARCH REVIEW. This means that I am expected to overview CURRENT scientific research on Bach-y-Rita’s device. To succeed in this task, I should be very narrow, which will allow you to explore the questions of my interest in depth.
General requirements:
1. 2000-3000 words;
2. APA style;
3. Minimum 5 references of which:
minimum 4 peer reviewed articles;
minimum 1 other source. (I’d like to use more, up till 8 to 15.)
Only 1 website can be sited (I’d rather not use websites unless it’s flabbergasting information).
Prohibited resources:
wikipedia.org;
answers.com;
+ other resources of this kind and course core text.
4. My paper should consist of three parts: introduction, body of the text and conclusion. These structural components must be linked logically. No need for chapters/headings/themes.
5. Paper must be written in scientific language and represent critical review of scientific discoveries. I am encouraged to present different approaches to the explanation of the certain phenomena/concept I’ve selected supported by scientific research as well as present controversial research data in a certain domain.
My literature review is going to be evaluated based on the following criteria:
1. Formal requirements: front page, references APA, other;
2. Paper content / course content relevance;
3. Paper content / topic coherency;
4. General structure;
5. Originality (NO overlap with class information, other);
6. Logic and thought flow (language, other);
7. Theory / research ratio;
8. Complexity of analysis and personal input.
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