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SUBMITTER: Ricciardi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732274 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ricciardi Emiliano E Menicagli Dario D Leo Andrea A Costantini Marcello M Pietrini Pietro P Sinigaglia Corrado C
Scientific reports 20171215 1
Our daily-life actions are typically driven by vision. When acting upon an object, we need to represent its visual features (e.g. shape, orientation, etc.) and to map them into our own peripersonal space. But what happens with people who have never had any visual experience? How can they map object features into their own peripersonal space? Do they do it differently from sighted agents? To tackle these questions, we carried out a series of behavioral experiments in sighted and congenitally blin ...[more]