Enhanced Verbal Abilities in The Congenitally Blind
| Autor: | Simon Lacey, Careese Stephens, Valeria Occelli, Lotfi B. Merabet, Krish Sathian |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Speech perception Verbal learning Blindness Spatial memory behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Memory span medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Aged Language Spatial Memory General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Space perception Middle Aged Verbal Learning medicine.disease Visual cortex medicine.anatomical_structure Memory Short-Term Space Perception Mental Recall Imagination Speech Perception Female Verbal memory Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Popis: | Numerous studies have found that congenitally blind individuals have better verbal memory than their normally sighted counterparts. However, it is not known whether this reflects superiority of verbal or memory abilities. In order to distinguish between these possibilities, we tested congenitally blind participants and normally sighted control participants, matched for age and education, on a range of verbal and spatial tasks. Congenitally blind participants were significantly better than sighted controls on all the verbal tasks but the groups did not differ significantly on the spatial tasks. Thus, the congenitally blind appear to have superior verbal, but not spatial, abilities. This may reflect greater reliance on verbal information and the involvement of visual cortex in language processing in the congenitally blind. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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