Kara Platoni

How do we know what and how we are seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling? If someone loses one or more of their senses, what technology is available today to help the person if not regain the lost sense at least a sort of perception of the sense? How do scientists identify and study brain activity when someone actually hears something and when that person 'hears' an internal voice in his head? Can this internal voice be replicated through technology to help those who have lost their ability to hear external sounds? That's just one of the chapters. In this fascinating book, scientists, researchers, gamers, roboticists, body artists and physicists with brilliant ideas or intense curiosity have contributed to research and innovation to help augment or enhance our sensory perceptions.… (més)