Braille in the Sighted: Teaching Tactile Reading to Sighted Adults.

ABSTRACT: Blind people are known to have superior perceptual abilities in their remaining senses. Several studies suggest that these enhancements are dependent on the specific experience of blind individuals, who use those remaining senses more than sighted subjects. In line with this view, sighted subjects, when trained, are able to significantly progress in relatively simple tactile tasks. However, the case of complex tactile tasks is less obvious, as some studies suggest that visual deprivation itself could confer large advantages in learning them. It remains unclear to what extent those complex skills, such as braille reading, can be learnt by sighted subjects. Here we enrolled twenty-nine sighted adults, mostly braille teachers and educators, in a 9-month braille reading course. At the beginnin

SUBMITTER: Bola L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4871356 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature