Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

Standard

Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals. / Gagnon, Léa; Kupers, Ron; Schneider, Fabien C; Ptito, Maurice.

I: NeuroReport, Bind 21, Nr. 15, 27.10.2010, s. 989-992.

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelfagfællebedømt

Harvard

Gagnon, L, Kupers, R, Schneider, FC & Ptito, M 2010, 'Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals', NeuroReport, bind 21, nr. 15, s. 989-992. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9

APA

Gagnon, L., Kupers, R., Schneider, F. C., & Ptito, M. (2010). Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals. NeuroReport, 21(15), 989-992. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9

Vancouver

Gagnon L, Kupers R, Schneider FC, Ptito M. Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals. NeuroReport. 2010 okt. 27;21(15):989-992. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9

Author

Gagnon, Léa ; Kupers, Ron ; Schneider, Fabien C ; Ptito, Maurice. / Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals. I: NeuroReport. 2010 ; Bind 21, Nr. 15. s. 989-992.

Bibtex

@article{5da9691186074af58396ea5568ff5dd9,
title = "Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals",
abstract = "Vision is undoubtedly important for navigation although not essential as blind individuals outperform their blindfolded seeing counterparts in a variety of navigational tasks. It is believed that the blind's superior performance is because of their efficient use of proprioceptive signals and environmental cues such as temperature and echolocation. We hypothesize that by limiting these cues, blind individuals will lose their advantage compared with controls in spatial navigation tasks. We therefore evaluated the performance of blind and sighted individuals in small-scale, tactile multiple T mazes. Our results show that blindfolded sighted controls outperformed blind participants in the route-learning tasks. This suggests that, contrary to indoor large-scale spaces, navigational skills inside small-scale spaces benefit from visual experience.",
author = "L{\'e}a Gagnon and Ron Kupers and Schneider, {Fabien C} and Maurice Ptito",
year = "2010",
month = oct,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "989--992",
journal = "NeuroReport",
issn = "0959-4965",
publisher = "Lippincott Williams & Wilkins",
number = "15",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals

AU - Gagnon, Léa

AU - Kupers, Ron

AU - Schneider, Fabien C

AU - Ptito, Maurice

PY - 2010/10/27

Y1 - 2010/10/27

N2 - Vision is undoubtedly important for navigation although not essential as blind individuals outperform their blindfolded seeing counterparts in a variety of navigational tasks. It is believed that the blind's superior performance is because of their efficient use of proprioceptive signals and environmental cues such as temperature and echolocation. We hypothesize that by limiting these cues, blind individuals will lose their advantage compared with controls in spatial navigation tasks. We therefore evaluated the performance of blind and sighted individuals in small-scale, tactile multiple T mazes. Our results show that blindfolded sighted controls outperformed blind participants in the route-learning tasks. This suggests that, contrary to indoor large-scale spaces, navigational skills inside small-scale spaces benefit from visual experience.

AB - Vision is undoubtedly important for navigation although not essential as blind individuals outperform their blindfolded seeing counterparts in a variety of navigational tasks. It is believed that the blind's superior performance is because of their efficient use of proprioceptive signals and environmental cues such as temperature and echolocation. We hypothesize that by limiting these cues, blind individuals will lose their advantage compared with controls in spatial navigation tasks. We therefore evaluated the performance of blind and sighted individuals in small-scale, tactile multiple T mazes. Our results show that blindfolded sighted controls outperformed blind participants in the route-learning tasks. This suggests that, contrary to indoor large-scale spaces, navigational skills inside small-scale spaces benefit from visual experience.

U2 - 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9

DO - 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833eaaf9

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 20736864

VL - 21

SP - 989

EP - 992

JO - NeuroReport

JF - NeuroReport

SN - 0959-4965

IS - 15

ER -

ID: 33906862