Early visual deprivation alters multisensory processing in peripersonal space

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 47; no. 14; pp. 3236 - 3243
• Main Authors: Collignon, Olivier, Charbonneau, Geneviève, Lassonde, Maryse, Lepore, Franco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Age of Onset; Attention - physiology; Audition; Auditory; Biological and medical sciences; Blindness; Blindness - physiopathology; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Cognitive Processes; Control Groups; Developmental Stages; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hearing - physiology; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Models, Psychological; Multisensory; Ophthalmology; Perception; Perception - physiology; Perceptual Masking - physiology; Peripersonal space; Physical Stimulation - methods; Probability; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Reaction Time - physiology; Redundant signal effect (RSE); Role; Sensory Experience; Somatosensory; Spatial Ability; Tactual Perception; Touch - physiology; Vision; Vision disorders; Somatosensory; Auditory; Peripersonal space; Multisensory; Blindness; Redundant signal effect (RSE); Human; Vision disorder; Stimulus redundancy; Cognition; Eye disease; Hearing; Sensory deprivation; Vision; Early; Intermodal perception

Multisensory peripersonal space develops in a maturational process that is thought to be influenced by early sensory experience. We investigated the role of vision in the effective development of audiotactile interactions in peripersonal space. Early blind (EB), late blind (LB) and sighted control (...