Objective. Retinal prosthesis recipients require rehabilitative training to learn the non-intuitive nature of prosthetic ‘phosphene vision’. This study investigated whether the addition of auditory cues, using The vOICe sensory substitution device (SSD), could improve functional performance with simulated phosphene vision. Approach. Forty normally sighted subjects completed two visual tasks under three conditions. The phosphene condition converted the image to simulated phosphenes displayed on a virtual reality headset. The SSD condition provided auditory information via stereo headphones, translating the image into sound. Horizontal information was encoded as stereo timing differences between ears, vertical information as pitch, and pixel intensity as audio intensity. The third condition combined phosphenes and SSD. Tasks comprised light localisation from the Basic Assessment of Light and Motion (BaLM) and the Tumbling-E from the Freiburg Acuity and Contrast Test...

中文翻译：

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感觉增强可帮助视网膜假体训练。

目的。视网膜假体接受者需要进行康复训练，以了解假体“ phosph视觉”的非直观性质。这项研究调查了使用vOICe感觉替代设备（SSD）添加听觉提示是否可以改善模拟磷光体视觉的功能性能。方法。40名正常视力的受试者在三种情况下完成了两项视觉任务。条件将图像转换为虚拟现实头戴式显示器上显示的模拟simulated。SSD状况通过立体声耳机提供听觉信息，将图像转换为声音。将水平信息编码为耳朵之间的立体声定时差异，将垂直信息编码为音高，将像素强度编码为音频强度。第三个条件结合了膦和SSD。