Exceptional ability of blind humans to hear sound motion: Implications for the emergence of auditory space

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-186

  Lewald, Jörg ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory motion; Blindness; Multisensory plasticity; Sound localization; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MOTION; AUDITORY SPACE; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BLINDNESS; BODY MOVEMENT; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871520803     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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