A case of spider phobia in a congenitally blind person.
Vision is the key sensory system in humans, leading to the implicit assumption that the acquisition of spider phobia is predominantly mediated through the visual pathway. We report on a congenitally blind person with spider phobia, showing that the acquisition of spider phobia does not necessarily depend on visual cues.
Musial
Frauke
F
Institute of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Jena, Germany.
Kolassa
Iris-Tatjana
IT
Sülzenbrück
Sandra
S
Miltner
Wolfgang H R
WH
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001143:Arousal; D001766:Blindness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000523:psychology; D003463:Cues; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D013112:Spiders; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014796:Visual Perception