Santani Teng, PhD
Associate Scientist, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Research: “Cortical and Perceptual Dynamics of Echolocation in Blindness-An EEG Study”
Research
“Cortical and Perceptual Dynamics of Echolocation in Blindness-An EEG Study”The Teng Lab studies auditory, visual, and haptic perception, echolocation, and assisted mobility in sighted and blind persons. Using a combination of psychophysical, neurophysiological, engineering, and computational tools, we aim to better understand how people perceive the world, especially when vision is unavailable. To study the mechanisms of echolocation, we are using a variety of methods, including EEG, MEG, and psychophysics, to unpack the information perceived in echo information, how it influences exploratory behavior, and how it is processed and accumulated in the brain.
