Hi, Yes, I use the vOICe quite regularly. I cannot comment on the version of IOS. Please select the option titled "new method" and then start experimenting. Please experiment in a safe environment such as your home.
I am happy to answer more questions. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ekinath Khedekar Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:07 AM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] FW: [The vOICe] Man with restored sight provides new insight into how vision develops Hi Pranav, About VoICE. Have you used it? I have i4 with latest ios and an android phone with 4.2.2 os. Would I be able to use the app for experimenting navigation? Thanks On 4/16/15, Pranav Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of you may find the below paper of interest. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > Meijer > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [The vOICe] Man with restored sight provides new insight into > how vision develops > > Hi All, > > For your information. Appended is today's news release from the > University of Washington, about Mike May. > > Best wishes, > > Peter Meijer > > > Seeing with Sound - The vOICe > http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm > > > Man with restored sight provides new insight into how vision develops. > > By Deborah Bach, News and Information. > > California man Mike May made international headlines in 2000 when his > sight was restored by a pioneering stem cell procedure after 40 years > of blindness. > > But a study published three years after the operation found that the > then-49-year-old could see colors, motion and some simple > two-dimensional shapes, but was incapable of more complex visual processing. > > Hoping May might eventually regain those visual skills, University of > Washington researchers and colleagues retested him a decade later. But > in a paper now available online in Psychological Science, they report > that May -- referred to in the study as M.M. -- continues to perform > significantly worse than sighted control group participants. > > The conclusion: May's vision remains very limited 15 years after the > surgeries. > Though disappointing, the results provide valuable information that > can help researchers better understand how vision develops and which > visual processing tasks are most vulnerable to sight deprivation. > > "With sight-restoration procedures becoming more developed, we're > going to see more and more cases where people are blind for long > periods of time and then get their sight back," said senior author > Ione Fine, a UW associate professor of psychology. > > "But we know very little about what happens in their brains during > that period. > That is going to be one of the fundamental questions going forward -- > what happens when the lights are turned off, and what happens when you > turn them back on?" > > May went blind at age 3 when a jar of chemicals exploded in his face. > He went on to work for the CIA and became a successful entrepreneur, > founding the Sendero Group, a company that makes GPS and talking-map > products for blind people. > May > is also a motivational speaker and holds the world downhill skiing > speed record, > 65 mph, for a completely blind person. > > But fully restored sight has eluded May, and his unusual case has > puzzled researchers. There were few previous cases of restored vision > before his -- the last well-documented one was in 1963 -- and > scientists knew little about whether people whose sight is restored as > adults can regain functional vision, and if so, how long that might > take. > > In the recent tests, May was shown images of household objects and > faces, and also video clips while his brain responses were measured > with fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). As with the tests a > decade earlier, May did not have normal brain responses to > three-dimensional objects or faces, consistent with his inability to > make sense of these stimuli. > > Researchers believe that's because May's brain, like those of other > people who went blind at an early age, has adjusted to respond to > other stimuli, such as sound or touch. > > "We suspect that Mike lost vision at an age when these brain regions > were able to take on new roles," said joint first author Jason > Webster. "It remains to be seen what these areas are doing now." > > May's case is particularly interesting, Fine said, because his > blindness started when the visual system is already developed, but the > ability to perceive objects and faces is still evolving. > > "He lost his vision at an age when vision is pretty good, but he was > still young enough for it to deteriorate," she said. > > The findings, the researchers say, indicate that visual function for > tasks such as object recognition and face processing continues to > develop through childhood and early adolescence and remains sensitive > to loss of sight for several years afterward. > > The good news, said joint first author and UW graduate student > Elizabeth Huber, is that the findings imply that adults' vision is > relatively fixed, meaning that as visual losses increase in an aging > population, the chances of restoring useful sight to older people are > good. > > "This study is encouraging because it suggests that if someone loses > sight later in life, it may still be possible to restore relatively > normal vision, even after many years of blindness," she said. > > May told the researchers he uses his other senses to compensate for > his poor vision. > > "I have learned what works with vision and what doesn't, so I really > don't challenge my vision much anymore," he said in the paper. "Where > motion or colors might be clues, I use my vision. Where details might > be required, like reading print or recognizing who someone is, I use > tactile and auditory techniques." > > Other co-authors are UW psychology professor Geoffrey Boynton; Alyssa > Brewer at the University of California, Irvine; Donald MacLeod at the > University of California, San Diego; Brian Wandell at Stanford > University; and Alex Wade at the University of York in the U.K. > > Source URL: > http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/04/15/man-with-restored-sight-prov > ides-new-insight-into-how-vision-develops/ > > To unsubscribe, send a blank e-mail to > [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. 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