Seeing 'where' through the ears: Effects of learning-by-doing and long-term sensory deprivation on localization based on image-to-sound substitution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Proulx, Michael J ^a   Stoerig, Petra ^a   Ludowig, Eva ^a   Knoll, Inna ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING STYLE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION (INTENTIONAL); SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; BLINDNESS; HEARING; LEARNING; LIGHT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

BLINDNESS; HEARING; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIGHT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 46649098687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001840     Document Type: Article

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