| ABM | Auditory backward masking |
| BCI | Brain-computer interfacing |
| BOLD | Blood oxygen level-dependent |
| CB | Congenitally blind people |
| EB | People that became blind in their first 2 years of life |
| ECoG | EEG with implanted electrodes |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| FEF | Frontal eye field |
| fMRI | Functional magnetic resonance imaging |
| HRTF | Head Related Transfer Function |
| ISI | Inter stimuli interval |
| JND | Just noticeable difference |
| LB | Late blind people |
| LED | Light-emitting diode |
| LOC | Lateral occipital complex |
| N1 | Negative-going evoked potential appearing about 100 ms after stimulus presentation |
| MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| RT | Response time |
| rTMS | Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation |
| SB | Sighted blindfolded |
| SC | Sighted comparison group |
| SOA | Stimulus onset asynchrony |
| TOJ | Temporal order judgement |
| VIP | Visually impaired people |