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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 551-553Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2795
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- James McDonnell Foundation
- National Eye Institute [R21-EY015521]
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Would a blind subject, on regaining sight, be able to immediately visually recognize an object previously known only by touch? We addressed this question, first formulated by Molyneux three centuries ago, by working with treatable, congenitally blind individuals. We tested their ability to visually match an object to a haptically sensed sample after sight restoration. We found a lack of immediate transfer, but such cross-modal mappings developed rapidly.
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