title: Simple auditory reaction time in blind and sighted adolescents.
abstract: This study compared simple auditory reaction times of 20 subjects aged between 11 and 15 yr. (M = 13), 10 born-blind from the Louis Braille Institut (Montréal) and 10 normal sighted subjects of the same age and sex. Their task was to press a telegraph key as fast as possible after presentation of an auditory stimulus. Each subject executed five blocks of 10 trials; the blocks were separated by a rest period of 1 min. The results showed no significant difference (p greater than .05) between born-blind and sighted people of the same sex and chronological age in regard to simple auditory reaction time.
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time