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SUBMITTER: Gori M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7267917 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gori Monica M Amadeo Maria Bianca MB Campus Claudio C
Human brain mapping 20200212 8
In the absence of vision, spatial representation may be altered. When asked to compare the relative distances between three sounds (i.e., auditory spatial bisection task), blind individuals demonstrate significant deficits and do not show an event-related potential response mimicking the visual C1 reported in sighted people. However, we have recently demonstrated that the spatial deficit disappears if coherent time and space cues are presented to blind people, suggesting that they may use time i ...[more]