Trial reportPloS one2012
Passive auditory stimulation improves vision in hemianopia.
Trial report in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Audio-visual stimulation for visual compensatory functions in stroke survivors with visual field defect: a systematic review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Pooled it
- Smartphone-Based Auditory Motion Stimulation for Hemispatial Neglect: Development and Usability Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Higher Order Visual Location Learning Does Not Explain Multisensory Enhancement of Sound Localization (Reply to Vroomen and Stekelenburg 2021).The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sound suppresses earliest visual cortical processing after sight recovery in congenitally blind humans.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Phasic Alertness and Multisensory Integration Contribute to Visual Awareness of Weak Visual Targets in Audio-Visual Stimulation under Continuous Flash Suppression.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Short-Term Audiovisual Spatial Training Enhances Electrophysiological Correlates of Auditory Selective Spatial Attention.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Lack of multisensory integration in hemianopia: no influence of visual stimuli on aurally guided saccades to the blind hemifield.PloS one · 2015Article
- How can audiovisual pathways enhance the temporal resolution of time-compressed speech in blind subjects?Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
- Audio-visual interaction in visual motion detection: Synchrony versus Asynchrony.Journal of optometryArticle
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
unlabelledTechniques employed in rehabilitation of visual field disorders such as hemianopia are usually based on either visual or audio-visual stimulation and patients have to perform a training task. Here we present results from a completely different, novel approach that was based on passive unimodal auditory stimulation. Ten patients with either left or right-sided pure hemianopia (without neglect) received one hour of unilateral passive auditory stimulation on either their anopic or their intact side by application of repetitive trains of sound pulses emitted simultaneously via two loudspeakers. Immediately before and after passive auditory stimulation as well as after a period of recovery, patients completed a simple visual task requiring detection of light flashes presented along the horizontal plane in total darkness. The results showed that one-time passive auditory stimulation on the side of the blind, but not of the intact, hemifield of patients with hemianopia induced an improvement in visual detections by almost 100% within 30 min after passive auditory stimulation. This enhancement in performance was reversible and was reduced to baseline 1.5 h later. A non-significant trend of a shift of the visual field border toward the blind hemifield was obtained after passive auditory stimulation. These results are compatible with the view that passive auditory stimulation elicited some activation of the residual visual pathways, which are known to be multisensory and may also be sensitive to unimodal auditory stimuli as were used here.
trial registrationDRKS00003577.
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