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Direct linkWan, Catherine Y.; Wood, Amanda G.; Reutens, David C.; Wilson, Sarah J. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Previous studies have shown that in comparison with the sighted, blind individuals display superior non-visual perceptual abilities and differ in brain organisation. In this study, we investigated the performance of blind and sighted participants on a vibrotactile discrimination task. Thirty-three blind participants were classified into one of…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Congenital Impairments, Perceptual Development
Alary, Flamine; Duquette, Marco; Goldstein, Rachel; Chapman, C. Elaine; Voss, Patrice; La Buissonniere-Ariza, Valerie; Lepore, Franco – Neuropsychologia, 2009
Previous studies have shown that blind subjects may outperform the sighted on certain tactile discrimination tasks. We recently showed that blind subjects outperformed the sighted in a haptic 2D-angle discrimination task. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of the same blind (n = 16) and sighted (n = 17, G1) subjects in three…
Descriptors: Performance, Braille, Blindness, Tactual Perception
