Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants.

ABSTRACT: Congenitally blind infants are not only deprived of visual input but also of visual influences on the intact senses. The important role that vision plays in the early development of multisensory spatial perception^1-7 (e.g., in crossmodal calibration^8-10 and in the formation of multisensory spatial representations of the body and the world^1,2) raises the possibility that impairments in spatial perception are at the heart of the wide range of difficulties that visually impaired infants show across spatial,^8-12 motor,^13-17 and social domains.^8,18,19 But investigations of early development are needed to clarify how visually impaired infants' spatial hearing and to

SUBMITTER: Gori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612739 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature