http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sensorymodification Posts tagged with 'sensorymodification' at MetaFilter. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:27:41 -0800 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:27:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60021/The%2DPhantom%2DCompass%2DSyndrome <a href=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html>Hacking the Senses</a>: The brain is far more plastic than we commonly realize. Presenting new 'senses' via the old inputs works extremely well, to the point that long-term volunteers are a little lost without their new abilities to feel magnetic north or absolute orientation. Tasting direction; feeling pictures. Fascinating stuff. In a loosely related article, <a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/brain/plasticity/color_mice_vision_2007.html">genetically modified mice</a> are able to see the full color range visible to humans, even though the last natural mouse able to see this way died out a hundred million years ago. Add the new sensors, and the brain reconfigures. <small><small>[<a href=http://www.dubiousquality.com>via</a>]</small></small></newline> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60021 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:27:41 -0800 color colorvision doesititch evolution mice modification mouse senses sensing sensory sensorymodification vision Malor