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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2024

How path integration abilities of blind people change in different exploration conditions.

Shehzaib Shafique, Walter Setti, Claudio Campus, Silvia Zanchi, Alessio Del Bue, Monica Gori

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shehzaib ShafiqueUnit of Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Walter SettiUnit of Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Claudio CampusUnit of Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Silvia ZanchiUnit of Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Alessio Del BuePattern Analysis and Computer Vision (PAVIS), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Monica GoriUnit of Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For animals to locate resources and stay safe, navigation is an essential cognitive skill. Blind people use different navigational strategies to encode the environment. Path integration significantly influences spatial navigation, which is the ongoing update of position and orientation during self-motion. This study examines two separate things: (i) how guided and non-guided strategies affect blind individuals in encoding and mentally representing a trajectory and (ii) the sensory preferences for potential navigational aids through questionnaire-based research. This study first highlights the significant role that the absence of vision plays in understanding body centered and proprioceptive cues. Furthermore, it also underscores the urgent need to develop navigation-assistive technologies customized to meet the specific needs of users.

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blind navigationenvironment encodingfeedback preferenceguided conditionpath integrationshape completionspatial navigationtriangle completion task

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PMID38826777
PMCPMC11140012

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