Visual experience and the concept of compensatory spatial hearing abilities

Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 367-380

  Emerson, Robert Wall ^a   Ashmead, Daniel H ^a  

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EID: 80053112077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203809976     Document Type: Chapter

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