Spatial Cues Influence Time Estimations in Deaf Individuals.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have reported a strong interaction between spatial and temporal representation when visual experience is missing: blind people use temporal representation of events to represent spatial metrics. Given the superiority of audition on time perception, we hypothesized that when audition is not available complex temporal representations could be impaired, and spatial representation of events could be used to build temporal metrics. To test this hypothesis, deaf and hearing subjects were tested with a visual temporal task where conflicting and not conflicting spatiotemporal information was delivered. As predicted, we observed a strong deficit of deaf participants when only temporal cues were useful and space was uninformative with respect to time. However, the deficit disappeared

SUBMITTER: Amadeo MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702436 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature