Improved auditory spatial sensitivity in near-sighted subjects.
There is a great deal of anecdotal and empirical evidence in favor of compensatory plasticity of the sensorial modalities when one of them undergoes a total deficit. Yet, while most research has focused on the development of spatial hearing in totally blind individuals, there are few works dealing with auditory compensation in the case of a partial visual deprivation. In the present study, three experiments show that subjects undergoing a visual deficit like myopia are more accurate at localizing sounds than normal-sighted subjects.
Dufour
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Centre d'Etude de Physiologie Appliquée, Université Louis Pasteur, 12 rue Goethe, 67000, Strasbourg, France. adufour@neurochem.u-strasbg.fr
Gérard
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000328:Adult; D005133:Eye Movements; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D009216:Myopia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013017:Sound Localization