Spatial Orientation and Congenital Blindness: A Neuropsychological Approach

In: Journal of visual impairment & blindness: JVIB, Band 89, Heft 2, S. 129-141

Abstract

Tests of a neuropsychological model for spatial orientation in the absence of vision were developed and administered to 31 children who are congenitally blind. The results supported the model and indicated that some congenitally blind subjects had focal brain damage, sufficient to impair their capacity to be accurately oriented in physical space.