Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow, held at the British Academy 26-28 March 2013 Since 1968 scientists have been creating sensory substitution and augmentation devices. With these devices they try to replace or enhance one sense by using another sense. For example, in tactile–vision, stimulation of the skin driven by input to a camera is used to replace the ordinary sense of vision that uses our eyes. The feelSpace belt aims to give people a magnetic sense of direction using vibrotactile stimulation driven by a digital compass. This conference brought together people developing these technologies, the psychologists studying the minds and behaviour of subjects who use the devices, and the neuroscientists and philosophers interested in the nature of perceptual experience and sensory interaction. We explored the nature, limits and possibilities of these technologies, how they can be used to help those with sensory impairments, and what they can tell us about perception and perceptual experience in general. The conference was followed by a demonstration event, bringing these technologies together in the one place for the first time ever.

Latest episodes of the podcast Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference

• Introduction to the Issues
• Sensory substitution devices: Seeing with sound, hearing with touch
• Properties and Mechanisms of Sensory Augmentation
• On Some Limitations of Sensory Substitution
• Audio-Visual Substitution
• There is More to Vision Than Meets the Eye: The Tongue as Tactile Gateway.
• The Role of Noetic Feelings in Sensory Substitution
• Seeing Coloured Images With Music Using the EYEMUSIC: From Perception to Visual
• The Processing of What, Where and How: Insights From Spatial Navigation Via Sens
• Conference Round Table Discussion
• Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference at the British Academy