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
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.
Until this profile is built out, please see my older site for more details: http://people.csail.mit.edu/santani/index.html
Tabs
Journal Articles
. (2020). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sound Representations Reveal a Hierarchical Progression of Category Selectivity. Biorxiv. http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.12.149120
. (2020). Visual Experience is not Necessary for the Development of Face Selectivity in the Lateral Fusiform Gyrus. Biorxiv. http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.25.964890
. (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
. (2019). Modeling echo-target acquisition in blind humans. In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
. (2019). Toward an open platform of blind navigation via interactions with autonomous robots. In ACM SIGCHI Conference.
. (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
. (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
. (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
. (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 understand and address better the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers. The RERC has many ongoing R&D projects and collaborative...
Teng Lab
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For inquiries, email santani@ski.org
Brabyn Lab
My lab is the home for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center funded by NIDILRR with additional support from SKERI and other agencies. Together we address problems of blindness and visual impairment, particularly problems faced by our target populaiton that may be amenable to...
Coughlan Lab
The goal of our laboratory is to develop and test assistive technology for blind and visually impaired persons that is enabled by computer vision and other sensor technologies.
The Kinematics of Braille Reading
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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...
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Motor, sensory, and perceptual dynamics of braille reading.”
We have measured the movements of fingers while blind subjects read standardized texts using either one or two hands. One of the aspects studied was the dependence of one-handed reading dynamics on varying...
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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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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...
Contact Information
2318 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94115
Email:
santani@ski.org