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Monaural auditory spatial abilities in early blind individuals.

Sara Finocchietti, Davide Esposito, Monica Gori

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sara FinocchiettiUnit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy.
Davide EspositoUnit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0942-6644
Monica GoriUnit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5616-865X
Italian Institute of Technology · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early blind individuals can localize single sound sources better than sighted participants, even under monaural conditions. Yet, in binaural listening, they struggle with understanding the distances between three different sounds. The latter ability has never been tested under monaural conditions. We investigated the performance of eight early blind and eight blindfolded healthy individuals in monaural and binaural listening during two audio-spatial tasks. In the localization task, a single sound was played in front of participants who needed to localize it properly. In the auditory bisection task, three consecutive sounds were played from different spatial positions, and participants reported which sound the second one was closer to. Only early blind individuals improved their performance in the monaural bisection, while no statistical difference was present for the localization task. We concluded that early blind individuals show superior ability in using spectral cues under monaural conditions.

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audiobisectionblindnesslocalizationmonauralspace representation

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PMID36861104
PMCPMC9969445
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