Congenital blindness limits allocentric to egocentric switching ability

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 236; no. 3; pp. 813 - 820
• Main Authors: Ruggiero, Gennaro, Ruotolo, Francesco, Iachini, Tina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blindness; Blindness - congenital; Blindness - physiopathology; Brain research; Distance Perception - physiology; Education; Female; Humans; Laboratories; Male; Middle Aged; Neurology; Neurosciences; Physiological aspects; Research Article; Space Perception - physiology; Spatial Memory - physiology; Visual deprivation; Egocentric–allocentric reference frames; Switching ability; Congenitally blindness; Blindfolded sighted; Spatial memory; Resource demanding process

Many everyday spatial activities require the cooperation or switching between egocentric (subject-to-object) and allocentric (object-to-object) spatial representations. The literature on blind people has reported that the lack of vision (congenital blindness) may limit the capacity to represent allo...