Michael Proulx's profile
What I do
My current research focuses on crossmodal perception: how the mind and brain perceives sensory information from multiple modalities such as touch, sight, and sound. I am pursuing two lines of inquiry. First, when a sensory modality is damaged, such as the visual system in the blind, sensory substitution seeks to provide that missing input via an intact modality, such as the auditory system. This work has two goals: a basic goal of understanding how brain plasticity makes the perceptual learning of a new sensory input possible, and an applied goal to help blind subjects regain some vision-like abilities and perhaps even “see” with their ears.
The second line of inquiry focuses on synaesthesia, a somewhat rare condition that arises from a sort of sensory “cross-wiring” in the brain. A sensory stimulus elicits not only the sensation that is normally evoked in its own modality, but an additional one in another modality.
Affiliations
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- Position
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Company
- Institute of Experimental Psychology II, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
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Interests
Sensory substitution, synaesthesia, crossmodal perception, visual search, attention, conceptual learning
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Publications
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Homa, D, Proulx, MJ, Blair, M. The modulating influence of category size on the classification of exception patterns. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 425-443 (2008)
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Proulx M, Stoerig P, Ludowig E, Knoll I. Seeing 'where' through the ears: effects of learning-by-doing and long-term sensory deprivation on localization based on image-to-sound substitution. PLoS ONE (3) , e1840 (2008) (Epub 26 Mar 2008) PubMed ID:(18364998)
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Proulx M. Turning on the spotlight: do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way? The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience (48) , 13043-4 (2007) PubMed ID:(18045898)
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Proulx MJ. The Strategic Control of Attention in Visual Search: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (2007)
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Proulx MJ, Stoerig P. Seeing sounds and tingling tongues: Qualia in synaesthesia and sensory substitution. Anthropology & Philosophy , 135-151 (2006)
Contact
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- mikepru [ at ] hotmail.com
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