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The Text Describes Experiments Where Blind Individuals Receive Sensory Stimuli

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The text describes experiments where blind individuals receive sensory stimuli on their tongue that reflects their visual environment. Can you think of other types of sensory modalities that might be advantageous to represent as somatosensory stimuli? What types of abilities might you be able to confer on humans that were previously not possible?


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