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Evidence for compression of virtual auditory distance among blind listeners
Thursday 28 March 2013
Blind listeners have been reported to display supra-normal performance for many auditory tasks, including sound localization, pitch discrimination, motion discrimination and echolocation (see Voss et al., 2010, for a review).
Compensatory auditory mechanisms develop following visual deprivation, that extend to the spatial domain and beyond. Occipital regions are recruited to process aud....
Global data on visual impairment published
Friday 1 February 2013
The results of a ground-breaking global collaboration among 79 ophthalmologists and optometrists, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of our Vision and Eye Research Unit (VERU), was published in a special issue of The Lancet on Thursday 13 December 2012.
Professor Bourne led the Vision Loss Expert Group in a systematic review of all published, and several unpublished, sources of worldwide da....
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