This week we’re talking to Professor Pieter Roelfsema from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. He is chatting with the lads about a research project looking at direct electrical stimulation of the brain via cortical visual neuroprostheses, which is a promising approach to restore basic sight for the visually impaired by inducing a percept of localised light called ‘phosphenes’. We are offering Jan as a guinea pig for this one!

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So, connect those electrodes directly into your ears and prepare to listen to Óran rambling on and on!

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Links for this show:
· Professor Roelfsema’s paper on his sight restoration research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40578385/#:~:text=Direct%20electrical%20stimulation%20of%20the,localized%20light%20called%20'phosphenes
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