ArticleExperimental brain research2016
Deaf, blind or deaf-blind: Is touch enhanced?
Article in Experimental brain research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Somatosensory processing in deaf and deafblind individuals: How does the brain adapt as a function of sensory and linguistic experience? A critical review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Multisensory temporal processing in early deaf.Neuropsychologia · 2021Article
- Valveless microliter combustion for densely packed arrays of powerful soft actuators.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Cross-modal motion aftereffects transfer between vision and touch in early deaf adults.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Enhanced tactile identification of musical emotion in the deaf.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Electrophysiological Dynamics of Visual-Tactile Temporal Order Perception in Early Deaf Adults.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Increased Right Posterior STS Recruitment Without Enhanced Directional-Tuning During Tactile Motion Processing in Early Deaf Individuals.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Increased cross-modal functional connectivity in cochlear implant users.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Congenital deafness is associated with specific somatosensory deficits in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Tactile short-term memory in sensory-deprived individuals.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
When someone looses one type of sensory input, s/he may compensate by using the sensory information conveyed by other senses. To verify whether loosing a sense or two has consequences on a spared sensory modality, namely touch, and whether these consequences depend on the type of sensory loss, we investigated the effects of deafness and blindness on temporal and spatial tactile tasks in deaf, blind and deaf-blind people. Deaf and deaf-blind people performed the spatial tactile task better than the temporal one, while blind and controls showed the opposite pattern. Deaf and deaf-blind participants were impaired in temporal discrimination as compared to controls, while deaf-blind individuals outperformed blind participants in the spatial tactile task. Overall, sensory-deprived participants did not show an enhanced tactile performance. We speculate that discriminative touch is not so relevant in humans, while social touch is. Probably, more complex tactile tasks would have revealed an increased performance in sensory-deprived people.
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