More On Sensory Substitution

I've recently been doing some thinking about sensory substitution, which is a very fun and seemingly neglected area of neuroscience. With tactile-visual substitution, would it be possible to get color? I think the way to do this would be to take three color channels and feed them all to different tactile areas - would people ever experience color qualia from this? I have no idea! But I kind of want to try it!

Here are some links for our reference:

• http://www.seeingwithsound.com/sensub.htm
• This is a great little page, with lots of general sensory substitution information.
• http://kaz.med.wisc.edu/Publicity/FAQ.html
• This is the webpage of one of the central researchers in the tactile-visual substitution studies at Wisconsin, with Bach-y-Rita
• http://www.wicab.com/technology/scientific_publications.html
• This is Bach-y-Rita's company