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The accuracy of auditory spatial judgments in the visually impaired is dependent on sound source distance.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Music-integrated strength-proprioceptive training improves lower-limb performance and postural balance in adolescents with visual impairment: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Distance judgement in individuals with vision and hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Functional Impacts of Vision Impairment: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026Review
- Perception of Straight Ahead With Vision, Hearing, and Proprioception by Individuals With Low Vision.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Best Practices for Treating Blind and Visually Impaired Patients in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a questionnaire for assessing visual and auditory spatial localization abilities in dual sensory impairment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dual Sensory Impairment: Impact of Central Vision Loss and Hearing Loss on Visual and Auditory Localization.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- Clinical assessment of the TechArm system on visually impaired and blind children during uni- and multi-sensory perception tasks.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- How Face Masks Affect the Use of Echolocation by Individuals With Visual Impairments During COVID-19: International Cross-sectional Online Survey.Interactive journal of medical research · 2022Article
- Partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Blindness leads to substantial enhancements in many auditory abilities, and deficits in others. It is unknown how severe visual losses need to be before changes in auditory abilities occur, or whether the relationship between severity of visual loss and changes in auditory abilities is proportional and systematic. Here we show that greater severity of visual loss is associated with increased auditory judgments of distance and room size. On average participants with severe visual losses perceived sounds to be twice as far away, and rooms to be three times larger, than sighted controls. Distance estimates for sighted controls were most accurate for closer sounds and least accurate for farther sounds. As the severity of visual impairment increased, accuracy decreased for closer sounds and increased for farther sounds. However, it is for closer sounds that accurate judgments are needed to guide rapid motor responses to auditory events, e.g. planning a safe path through a busy street to avoid collisions with other people, and falls. Interestingly, greater visual impairment severity was associated with more accurate room size estimates. The results support a new hypothesis that crossmodal calibration of audition by vision depends on the severity of visual loss.
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