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Early- and late-onset blindness both curb audiotactile integration on the parchment-skin illusion

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Champoux, Franöois Collignon, Olivier [UCL] Bacon, Benoit A. Lepore, Franco Zatorre, Robert J. Théoret, Hugo

It has been shown that congenital blindness can lead to anomalies in the integration of auditory and tactile information, at least under certain conditions. In the present study, we used the parchment-skin illusion, a robust illustration of sound-biased perception of touch based on changes in frequency, to investigate the specificities of audiotactile interactions in early-and late-onset blind individuals. Blind individuals in both groups did not experience any illusory change in tactile perception when the frequency of the auditory signal was modified, whereas sighted individuals consistently experienced the illusion. This demonstration that blind individuals had reduced susceptibility to an auditory-tactile illusion suggests either that vision is necessary for the establishment of audiotactile interactions or that auditory and tactile information can be processed more independently in blind individuals than in sighted individuals. In addition, the results obtained in late-onset blind participants suggest that visual input may play a role in the maintenance of audiotactile integration. © The Author(s) 2011.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Journal information "Psychological Science" - Vol. 22, no. 1, p. 19-25 (2011)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Sage Publications, Inc.
e-issn 1467-9280
issn 0956-7976
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
UCL - SSS/IONS/COSY - Systems & cognitive Neuroscience
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Bibliographic reference Champoux, Franöois ; Collignon, Olivier ; Bacon, Benoit A. ; Lepore, Franco ; Zatorre, Robert J. ; et. al. Early- and late-onset blindness both curb audiotactile integration on the parchment-skin illusion. In: Psychological Science, Vol. 22, no. 1, p. 19-25 (2011)
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