Differences between early-blind, late-blind, and blindfolded-sighted people in haptic spatial-configuration learning and resulting memory traces

Perception

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1253-1265

  Postma, Albert ^a   Zuidhoek, Sander ^a   Noordzij, Matthijs L ^b   Kappers, Astrid M L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 35448977609     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p5441     Document Type: Article

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