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Study Shows Superior Sound-location Skills In The Blind, ScienceDaily
 









Excerpts: A research team (...) has shown that both early- and late-onset blind
people have better sound discrimination abilities than people with normal
vision. Reported in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology, the study
demonstrates for the first time that blind people from both groups perform
equally well in tests requiring them to map auditory space beyond their
peri-personal environment. (...) "Humans are remarkably adaptable. (...) Of
course, hearing is far more important to blind people so it's possible that they
spend proportionately more time developing this sense. It's also possible that
their superior performance reflects cross-modal cortical reorganization."
Source: University Of Montreal Study Shows Superior Sound-location Skills In The
Blind[ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041008024251.htm ],
ScienceDaily & University Of Montreal, 2004/10/08
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