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16769626

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
This study investigated whether the lack of visual experience affects the ability to create spatial inferential representations of the survey type. We compared the performance of persons with congenital blindness and that of blindfolded sighted persons on four survey representation-based tasks (Experiment 1). Results showed that persons with blindness performed better than blindfolded sighted controls. We repeated the same tests introducing a third group of persons with late blindness (Experiment 2). This last group performed better than blindfolded sighted participants, whereas differences between participants with late and congenital blindness were nonsignificant. The present findings are compatible with results of other studies, which found that when visual perception is lacking, skill in gathering environmental spatial information provided by nonvisual modalities may contribute to a proper spatial encoding. It is concluded that, although it cannot be asserted that total lack of visual experience incurs no cost, our findings are further evidence that visual experience is not a necessary condition for the development of spatial inferential complex representations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1747-0218
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
59
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1306-28
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-10-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Visual experience is not necessary for efficient survey spatial cognition: evidence from blindness.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. tinti@psych.unito.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't