The SKERI community is excited to welcome our newest investigator, Dr. Santani Teng who brings his innovative research, investigating auditory spatial perception, haptics, echolocation, and assisted mobility in sighted and blind persons. Using a combination of psychophysical, neurophysiological, engineering, and computational tools, his research aims to better understand how people perceive the world, especially when visual input is compromised. Dr. Teng completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and postdoctoral work at MIT, where he is still affiliated. A recent paper that he co-authored shows that a cortical region specialized for visual representation of faces also responds to a tactile representation of faces in the congenitally blind. Santani was recently awarded a three-year grant from The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired to study the neural processes of echolocation.
If you would like to read more about Dr. Teng's recent work, please click here.
