Sensory Substitution and Augmentation

Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and trustee of the Kennedy Memorial trust. Her work concerns the nature of consciousness, perception and perceptual experience, introspection, imagination, and the metaphysics of mind. She has written on the nature of the senses, on cognitive penetration, and on illusion and hallucination. Her publications include Handbook of Philosophy of Colour (with Derek Brown; 2018), Phenomenal Presence and Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory (both with Fabian Dorsch; 2018), Hallucination (with Dimitris Platchais; 2013), The Senses (2011), The Admissible Contents of Experience (with Katherine Hawley; 2011), and Disjunctivism (with Adrian Haddock; 2008).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPreface and Acknowledgements1: Fiona Macpherson: Sensory Substitution and Augmentation: An Introduction2: Laurent Renier: Sensory Substitution: from Sensations to Phenomenology3: Barry C Smith: Sensory Substitution and The Transparency of Visual Experience: Comments on Laurence Renier4: Jennifer Corns: Disambiguating the Perceptual Assumption: a Commentary on Auvray and Deroy5: Paul Noordhof: Sensory Substitution and the Challenge of Acclimatisation6: Sarah Hillenbrand, Dina Raveh, and Amir Amedi: What Can Sensory Substitution Tell Us About the Organisation of the Brain?7: Derek Brown: Sensory Substitution Devices and Behavioural Transference: A Commentary on Recent Work from the Lab of Amir Amedi8: Maurice Ptito, Katherine Iversen, Malika Auvray, Ophelia Deroy, and Ron Kupers: Limits of the Classical Functionalist Perspective on Sensory Substitution9: Michael J Proulx, David J. Brown, and Achille Pasqualotto: The Processing of What, Where, and How: Insights from Spatial Navigation Via Sensory Substitution10: J. Kevin O'Regan: Rewired Animals and Sensory Substitution: The Cause is Not Cortical Plasticity11: Robert Briscoe: Bodily Action and Distal Attribution in Sensory Substitution12: Thomas D. Wright and Jamie Ward: Sensory Substitution Devices as Advanced Sensory Tools13: Jonathan Cohen: Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Emergence14: Kevin Connolly: Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Learning15: Charles Spence: Sensory Substitution: Unfulfilled Promises and Fundamental Limitations16: David Suarez, Diana Acosta-Navas, Umut Baysan, and Kevin Connolly: Sensory Substitution and Non-Sensory Feelings17: Jérôme Dokic: The Role of Noetic Feelings in Sensory Substitution

The late Paul Bach-y-Rita is generally accredited for developing the ?rst electronic sensory substitution device (SSD) in the 1960s. This was the tactile visual sensory substitution device (TVSS) that redirected visual information to the tactile sense. The editor of this book provides a lively and elaborate history of the TVSS and other SSDs and augmentation devices in the Introduction. MacPherson continues with a detailed philosophical account on the nature of the sensory experiences elicited by SSDs. Already in the Introduction, it becomes clear that the book successfully brings together perspectives on SSDs from psychological, neuroscienti?c, and philosophical vantage points.