Teng Lab
Santani Teng
Associate Scientist
Degrees: Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Psychology University of California, Davis
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Davis
M.A., Psychology University of California, Davis
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Davis
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Hello! I'm an Associate Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell, where I investigate auditory spatial perception, haptics, echolocation, and assisted mobility in sighted and blind persons. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and postdoctoral work at MIT, where I remain affiliated.
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Journal Articles
. (2022). Cochlea to categories: The spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic auditory representations. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38(7-8), 468-489. http://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2085085
. (2020). Visual Experience is not Necessary for the Development of Face Selectivity in the Lateral Fusiform Gyrus. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004607117
. (2020). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sound Representations Reveal a Hierarchical Progression of Category Selectivity. Biorxiv. http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.12.149120
. (2017). Resolving the neural dynamics of visual and auditory scene processing in the human brain: a methodological approach. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372, 20160108.
. (2015). A device for human ultrasonic echolocation. Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Engineering, 62, 1526–1534.
. (2012). Ultrafine spatial acuity of blind expert human echolocators. Experimental Brain Research, 216, 483–488.
. (2011). The acuity of echolocation: Spatial resolution in sighted persons compared to the performance of an expert who is blind. Journal Of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 105, 20–32.
Conference Papers
. (2022). Decoding spatial and temporal order representations during explicit visual sequence learning in development. In . presented at the 04/2022, Cognitive Society for Neuroscience: San Francisco, California.
. (2022). Decoding spatial and temporal order representations during explicit visual sequence learning in development. In . presented at the 04/2022, Cognitive Society for Neuroscience: San Francisco, California.
. (2019). Modeling echo-target acquisition in blind humans. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience: Berlin, Germany.
. (2019). Toward an open platform of blind navigation via interactions with autonomous robots. In ACM SIGCHI Conference.
. (2018). Temporal dynamics underlying sound discrimination in the human brain. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. http://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2018.1090-0
. (2018). Auditory letter-name processing elicits crossmodal representations in blind listeners. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. http://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2018.1236-0
. (2017). Enabling independent navigation for visually impaired people through a wearable vision-based feedback system. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 6533–6540).
. (2017). The evolution of tactile letter representations in blind braille readers. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Retrieved from https://ccneuro.org/2017/abstracts/abstract_3000316.pdf
Presentations/Posters
. (2023). Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation. presented at the 05/2023, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
. (2023). Reading styles modulate perceptual roles of the hands in bimanual braille reading. presented at the 05/2023, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
. (2023). The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of Braille letter representations in individuals with congenital blindness. presented at the 05/2023, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
. (2022). Building a meaningful world when vision is unavailable. presented at the 10/2022, Ν⍴Ψ Neuroscience Honor Society meeting: Bradley University, Peoria, IL.
. (2022). Decoding spatial and temporal order representations during explicit visual sequence learning in development. presented at the 04/2022, Cognitive Society for Neuroscience: San Francisco, California.
. (2022). Speech encoding modulated by task-relevance and reverberant acoustic statistics. presented at the 04/2022, Cognitive Society for Neuroscience: San Francisco, California.
. (2021). Interpreting sensation: Quantifying the bottleneck of information transfer between echolocation, vision, and haptic perception. presented at the 11/2021, Conference on Object Perception, visual Attention, and visual Memory (OPAM): Virtual.
. (2021). Neural representations of temporal and spectral regularities of reverberant environments. presented at the 11/2021, 50th Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting: Chicago/ Virtual.
. (2021). Dynamics of neural representations from non-simultaneous M/EEG and fMRI signals. presented at the 10/2021, Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC): Virtual. Retrieved from https://spark.adobe.com/page/WbX4rTV0hPDMy/
. (2021). Neural representation of physical and perceived environmental acoustics. presented at the 10/2021, Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC): Virtual.
. (2021). Common and distinct mechanisms in blind and sighted reading. presented at the 09/2021, Bay Area Vision Research Day: Berkeley, CA (Virtual).
. (2021). Echolocation: A practical overview of sonar for adaptive neurotechnology. presented at the 07/2021, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Focus Course: Virtual.
. (2021). Making remote studies accessible during COVID: A SKERI case study on web-based psychophysical research with blind participants. presented at the 07/2021, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Meeting: Virtual.
. (2021). Neural encoding of temporal and spectral statistical regularities of reverberant environments. presented at the 06/2021, Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting: Virtual.
. (2021). How blurry are echoes? Quantifying the spatial resolution of echoic, visual, and haptic object discrimination. presented at the 05/2021, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting: Virtual.
. (2021). Visual experience modulates sensitivity to statistics of reverberation. presented at the 05/2021, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting: Virtual.
. (2021). Hearing real spaces: The development of sensitivity to reverberation statistics in children. presented at the 03/2021, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting: Virtual.
. (2020). The haptic kinematics of two-handed braille reading in blind adults. presented at the 09/2020, Eurohaptics: Semi-virtual; Leiden, The Netherlands. Retrieved from https://www.ski.org/project/haptic-kinematics-two-handed-braille-reading-blind-adults
. (2020). Fusing non-simultaneous multimodal data to understand neural dynamics across timescales. presented at the 07/2020, Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting: Virtual (originally Montreal, Canada).
. (2019). Spatiotemporal dynamics of sound representations in the human brain. Society for Neuroscience.
. (2019). The spatial resolution of object discrimination across echolocation and touch. Object Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Memory (OPAM).
. (2019). Spatiotemporal neural representations in high- level visual cortex evoked from sounds. Vision Sciences Society.
. (2019). Strong face selectivity in the fusiform can develop in the absence of visual experience. Vision Sciences Society.
. (2018). Echolocation: Research to inform future practice. MacFarland Seminar, AER meeting. Reno, NV: Reno, NV. Retrieved from https://aerbvi.org/professional-development/conferences/aeric2018/info/
. (2018). Transforming tactile braille signals over space and time. Vision Sciences Society.
. (2017). The evolution of tactile letter representations in blind braille readers. Society for Neuroscience.
. (2016). Neurodynamics of visual and auditory scene size representations. Vision Sciences Society.
. (2011). Crossmodal transfer of object information in human echolocation. International Multisensory Research Conference. Fukuoka, Japan: Fukuoka, Japan.
Other Publications
. (2016). Cognitive Society. In Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (pp. 1–9). Springer International Publishing.
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
The Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers
Teng Lab
We aim to better understand how people perceive, interact with, and move through the world, especially when vision is unavailable. To this end, the lab studies perception and sensory processing in multiple sensory modalities, with particular interests in echolocation and braille reading in blind persons. We are also interested in mobility and navigation, including assistive technology using nonvisual cues. These are wide-ranging topics, which we approach using a combination of psychophysical, neurophysiological, engineering, and computational tools.
Brabyn Lab
Together we address problems of blindness and visual impairment, particularly problems faced by our target populaiton that may be amenable to technological solutions.
Teng Lab Experiment Participation
Available experiments in the Cognition, Action, and Neural Dynamics Lab
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Hearing the World: A Remote Study of Auditory Perception
We aim to investigate the nature of auditory perception and how the brain learns rules for interpreting sounds.
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Haptic Kinematics of Two-Handed Braille Reading in Blind Adults
This page (currently under construction) accompanies a work-in-progress poster at the 2020 Eurohaptics meeting.
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Human Echolocation
What is echolocation? Sometimes, the surrounding world is too dark and silent for typical vision and hearing. This is true in deep caves, for example, or in murky water where little light penetrates. Animals living in these environments often have the ability to echolocate: They make sounds and...
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Reverberant Auditory Scene Analysis
The world is rich in sounds and their echoes from reflecting surfaces, making acoustic reverberation a ubiquitous part of everyday life. We usually think of reverberation as a nuisance to overcome (it makes understanding speech or locating sound sources harder), but it also carries useful...
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Optimizing Echoacoustics: An online perceptual study (Under construction)
An online study of echoacoustic perception
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The Kinematics of Braille Reading
[Under construction]
When blind persons read braille, a system of raised dots for tactile reading and writing, how is the information processed? How do a few indentations on the fingerpads translate to linguistic information, and how does the text, in turn, influence the motions of the...
Contact Information
Email:
santani@ski.org