Adults' spatial scaling of tactile maps: Insights from studying sighted, early and late blind individuals.

ABSTRACT: The current study investigated spatial scaling of tactile maps among blind adults and blindfolded sighted controls. We were specifically interested in identifying spatial scaling strategies as well as effects of different scaling directions (up versus down) on participants' performance. To this aim, we asked late blind participants (with visual memory, Experiment 1) and early blind participants (without visual memory, Experiment 2) as well as sighted blindfolded controls to encode a map including a target and to place a response disc at the same spot on an empty, constant-sized referent space. Maps had five different sizes resulting in five scaling factors (1:3, 1:2, 1:1, 2:1, 3:1), allowing to investigate different scaling directions (up and down) in a single, comprehensive design. Accura

SUBMITTER: Szubielska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11139347 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature