SSTIM ecosystem
Stakeholder directory
Companies, laboratories, people, societies, standards and projects that work in sensory stimulation or beside it, each listed from one public source.
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- Society or nonprofit · United States
American Music Therapy Association
Professional association for music therapy in the United States.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Apollo Neuroscience
Makes a wearable that delivers low-frequency vibration patterns intended to support relaxation and focus.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Society or nonprofit · United States
Association for Chemoreception Sciences
Scientific society for research on smell, taste and chemical senses.
Olfactory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · South Korea
bHaptics
Makes haptic vests, sleeves and gloves for virtual reality.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · France
Brain and Cognition Research Centre (CerCo), Toulouse
CNRS research centre whose work includes rhythmic visual stimulation and the rhythms of perception.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Standard · International
Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)
Community standard for organising neuroimaging and behavioural data, including stimulus events.
Multisensory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Brain.fm
Produces functional music with engineered amplitude modulation for focus, relaxation and sleep.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
BrainTap
Makes a headset and app that combine light patterns with audio programs that use binaural beats.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Brainvolts, Northwestern University
Nina Kraus’s auditory neuroscience laboratory, studying how sound and music experience shape the brain.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United Kingdom
Brion Gysin
Artist who built the Dreamachine with Ian Sommerville around 1960, a flicker device viewed with the eyes closed.
Visual Candidate — review pending PastSource - Laboratory or research centre · Denmark
Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University
Research centre on how music affects the brain, including music-based interventions.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
CHARM Lab, Stanford University
Allison Okamura’s laboratory on haptics, wearable touch feedback and medical robotics.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Cognito Therapeutics
Develops a headset that delivers 40 Hz light and sound stimulation (gamma sensory stimulation), in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United States
David Eagleman
Neuroscientist working on sensory substitution and augmentation; co-founder of Neosensory.
TactileAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Project or open tool · United Kingdom
Dreamachine (Collective Act)
Public art and science project (2022) offering a collective flicker experience with the eyes closed, with research on perceptual diversity.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pending PastSource - Person · United Kingdom
Edgar Adrian
Physiologist who, with B. H. C. Matthews, reported in 1934 that the EEG follows flickering light (photic driving).
Visual Candidate — review pending PastSource - Company · United States
Elemind Technologies
Makes an EEG headband that plays sound timed to the wearer’s brain rhythms (closed-loop acoustic stimulation) around sleep onset.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Germany
Endel
Generates adaptive, personalized soundscapes for focus, relaxation and sleep.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United Kingdom
Fiona Macpherson
Philosopher of perception who led research on the Dreamachine and the Perception Census.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United States
Gerald Oster
Biophysicist whose 1973 article "Auditory beats in the brain" in Scientific American brought binaural beats to wide attention.
Auditory Candidate — review pending PastSource - Person · United Kingdom
Gregor Thut
Neuroscientist studying how rhythmic sensory and transcranial stimulation entrain brain rhythms.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · Germany
Haptic Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Research department on haptic interfaces and touch, led by Katherine J. Kuchenbecker.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Standard · International
HED Working Group
Maintains Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED), the event annotation standard used with BIDS.
Multisensory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · Germany
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
Physicist who described binaural beats in 1839.
Auditory Candidate — review pending PastSource - Laboratory or research centre · Germany
Interdisciplinary Centre for Smell and Taste, University Hospital Dresden
Clinical and research centre for smell and taste disorders, known for research on olfactory training.
Olfactory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · Canada
International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS)
Montreal research centre on music, auditory cognition and rhythm, including rhythm-based interventions.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Standard · International
ITU-R BT.1702
ITU recommendation on reducing the risk of photosensitive seizures from flashing television images.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · Germany
Jan Born
Neuroscientist whose group showed in 2013 that sound pulses timed to sleep slow oscillations enhance them.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan
Hearing research institute whose work includes bimodal sound and touch stimulation for tinnitus (Susan Shore’s laboratory).
AuditoryTactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Austria
Lucia Light
Makes the Lucia hypnagogic light, which combines flickering and constant light viewed with the eyes closed.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United Kingdom
Lumenate
An app that flickers a phone’s flashlight, viewed with the eyes closed, alongside guided audio.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Belgium
Luminette (Lucimed)
Makes light-therapy glasses that direct blue-enriched light toward the eyes.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Canada
Mind Alive
Makes the DAVID line of audio-visual entrainment devices, light glasses paired with pulsed sound.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Belgium
Moonbird
Makes a handheld device that expands and contracts to pace the user’s breathing by touch.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · Canada
Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto
Michael Thaut’s research centre on music and the brain, which developed Neurologic Music Therapy and rhythmic auditory stimulation for movement rehabilitation.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Project or open tool · Belgium
myNoise
Website of calibrated noise and soundscape generators, created by Stéphane Pigeon.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Neosensory
Made wrist-worn devices that translated sound into vibration, including a program pairing tones with touch for tinnitus; the company has since closed and sold its technology.
TactileAuditory Candidate — review pending PastSource - Company · Ireland
Neuromod Devices (Lenire)
Makes Lenire, a bimodal device that pairs sound through headphones with mild electrical stimulation of the tongue, authorised for tinnitus.
AuditoryTactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Neuroscape, University of California San Francisco
Translational neuroscience centre that develops and tests closed-loop digital interventions, such as video games, for cognition.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
NeuroVIZR
Makes a stroboscopic light device paired with audio programs, used with the eyes closed.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Denmark
OptoCeutics
Develops 40 Hz light stimulation designed to look steady to the viewer (invisible spectral flicker), studied in dementia research.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Otolith Labs
Develops a head-worn vibration device studied for vertigo.
TactileVestibular Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
OVR Technology
Develops scent delivery hardware and software for virtual reality.
Olfactory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Paller Lab, Northwestern University
Ken Paller’s laboratory, which studies memory reactivation by sound cues during sleep.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United States
Paul Bach-y-Rita
Neuroscientist who pioneered sensory substitution, including tactile-visual substitution systems.
TactileVisual Candidate — review pending PastSource - Person · United States
Peter Tass
Neuroscientist who developed coordinated reset stimulation, including acoustic and vibrotactile variants.
AuditoryTactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Project or open tool · United Kingdom
PsychoPy
Open-source software for presenting precisely timed visual and auditory stimuli in experiments.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Project or open tool · International
Psychtoolbox
Open-source toolbox for precise visual and auditory stimulus presentation in MATLAB and Octave.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Sana Health
Develops a mask that delivers pulsed light and sound, studied for pain and sleep.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Project or open tool · United Kingdom
SBaGen
Open-source sequenced binaural beat generator by Jim Peters, from the early 2000s.
Auditory Candidate — review pending PastSource - Company
Sensate
Makes a chest-worn device that delivers infrasonic vibration paired with soundscapes.
TactileAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Singer Lab, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Annabelle Singer’s laboratory, which studies how flicker and other sensory stimulation drive neural activity and brain immune responses.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Society or nonprofit · International
Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms
Scientific society for research on light treatment and biological rhythms.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Netherlands
Somnox
Makes a pillow-like device that simulates slow breathing movement to pace the user’s breathing.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Canada
SUBPAC
Makes wearable tactile transducers that render low-frequency sound as vibration on the body.
TactileAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United Kingdom
Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science
Research centre on consciousness, including research on flicker-induced visual experiences with the Dreamachine project.
Visual Candidate — review pendingSource - Society or nonprofit · United States
The Monroe Institute
Nonprofit that developed Hemi-Sync binaural-beat audio and runs residential programs.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · Luxembourg
Tomatis Développement
Offers the Tomatis method, listening programs built on electronically processed music and bone conduction.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
TouchPoints
Makes a pair of wearables that deliver bilateral alternating vibration.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · United States
Tsai Laboratory, Picower Institute, MIT
Li-Huei Tsai’s laboratory, which introduced gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli (GENUS), 40 Hz light and sound, in models of Alzheimer’s disease.
VisualAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United Kingdom
Ultraleap
Develops hand tracking and mid-air haptics, touch sensations produced by focused ultrasound.
Tactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Laboratory or research centre · Italy
Unit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology
Monica Gori’s research unit, developing audio and tactile devices for multisensory rehabilitation of children with visual impairment.
AuditoryTactile Candidate — review pendingSource - Company · United States
Unyte Health (Integrated Listening Systems)
Provides the Safe and Sound Protocol and other filtered-music listening programs delivered through practitioners.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Person · United Kingdom
William Grey Walter
Neurophysiologist whose work on flicker and photic driving in the 1940s and 1950s shaped research on rhythmic visual stimulation.
Visual Candidate — review pending PastSource - Company · Israel
Woojer
Makes wearable haptic vests and straps that render audio as vibration.
TactileAuditory Candidate — review pendingSource - Society or nonprofit · International
World Federation of Music Therapy
International organisation of music therapy associations and practitioners.
Auditory Candidate — review pendingSource