These findings represent an encouraging step toward developing a visual neuroprosthesis that could help blind or low-vision individuals enhance their mobility (IMAGE)

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche

These findings represent an encouraging step toward developing a visual neuroprosthesis that could help blind or low-vision individuals enhance their mobility

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By analyzing neural activity,” Fernández Jover adds, “we can now predict whether a specific electrical stimulation will produce a visual perception —and even estimate its brightness and the number of individual percepts.” This enables the system to automatically fine-tune stimulation parameters, improving adaptation and accelerating the users’ learning curve.

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Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH)

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