Worth noting this is n=1, and he was faceblind due to brain damage, not from birth.
Okay, that seems a lot easier to stick in my model. At least, with a handwavy “like the water in your ear thing” as opposed to a “okay, I thought faceblind people were missing a structure, and somehow mucking with the balance system adds it???”
The faceblindness connection seems especially strange. Do they have an explanation for it?
Paper is freely available: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7259379_Improvement_of_a_face_perception_deficit_via_subsensory_galvanic_vestibular_stimulation (‘download full-text PDF’ looks to me like it’s going to ask for money, but it doesn’t)
The discussion section looks like it makes a tentative guess, but I’m not capable of summarizing it.
Worth noting this is n=1, and he was faceblind due to brain damage, not from birth.
Similar n=1 brain damage study: “Improvement of a figure copying deficit during subsensory galvanic vestibular stimulation” http://www.bu.edu/ballab/pubs/Wilkinson2009.pdf
I wonder if this is related to the “squirt cold water in your left (right?) ear” thing?
Okay, that seems a lot easier to stick in my model. At least, with a handwavy “like the water in your ear thing” as opposed to a “okay, I thought faceblind people were missing a structure, and somehow mucking with the balance system adds it???”