October 15th is #WhiteCaneAwareness Day and #BlindAmericansEqualityDay! The white cane symbolizes independence and advocates for equal rights and opportunities for individuals with visual impairments. Together, we can promote inclusion and accessibility!

Yesterday’s VSRSS seminar featured Dr. Santani Teng sharing his research on how the brain adapts in the absence of vision, revealing new insights into crossmodal plasticity and tactile language processing. Thanks to all who attended for making this an engaging session!

It was a great pleasure to host Santani Teng from Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in our Western Centre for Brain and Mind talk series! His insightful talk on the dynamics of Braille letter perception in blind readers sparked an engaging discussion with the audience.

What a great visit to Western Centre for Brain and Mind to share recent and ongoing #braille research from our lab and @marleenhaupt! Thanks to Yalda Mohsenzadeh and everyone in the CNAI lab for being such great hosts. 🙏🏼🧠

🎃👻 Halloween is all about fun, but safety is key! 🦇👀 Check out this article where Dr. Corinne Casey from Wilmer Eye Institute shares essential tips to keep your eyes safe while enjoying the festivities: hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellnes… #EyeCare

👻 Happy Halloween from Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute! 🎃 Here's a throwback to the S̶K̶E̶R̶I̶ scary-themed tea gathering hosted by the Teng Lab (Santani Teng )! Decor included a sodium vapor lamp casting a distinct yellow wavelength, making the room oddly colorless!

🚨 What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#eNeuro: Findings from García-Lázaro and Teng show that the brain distinguishes between real and synthetic reverberation. This provides insights for enhancing realism in immersive virtual reality, music, and film production and using reverberation to guide navigation for blind

Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: ski.org/what-does-fell…