Age and auditory spatial perception in humans: review of behavioral findings and suggestions for future research

MK Russell - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It has been well documented, and fairly well known, that concomitant with an increase in
chronological age is a corresponding increase in sensory impairment. As most people …

Blindness enhances auditory obstacle circumvention: Assessing echolocation, sensory substitution, and visual-based navigation

AJ Kolarik, AC Scarfe, BCJ Moore, S Pardhan - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Performance for an obstacle circumvention task was assessed under conditions of visual,
auditory only (using echolocation) and tactile (using a sensory substitution device, SSD) …

[HTML][HTML] Navigation and perception of spatial layout in virtual echo-acoustic space

C Dodsworth, LJ Norman, L Thaler - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Successful navigation involves finding the way, planning routes, and avoiding collisions.
Whilst previous research has shown that people can navigate using non-visual cues, it is not …

A low-cost 2-D video system can accurately and reliably assess adaptive gait kinematics in healthy and low vision subjects

T Zult, J Allsop, J Tabernero, S Pardhan - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
D gait analysis is the gold standard but many healthcare clinics and research institutes
would benefit from a system that is inexpensive and simple but just as accurate. The present …

A framework to account for the effects of visual loss on human auditory abilities.

AJ Kolarik, S Pardhan, BCJ Moore - Psychological Review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Until recently, a commonly held view was that blindness resulted in enhanced auditory
abilities, underpinned by the beneficial effects of cross-modal neuroplasticity. This viewpoint …

The accuracy of auditory spatial judgments in the visually impaired is dependent on sound source distance

AJ Kolarik, R Raman, BCJ Moore, S Cirstea… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Blindness leads to substantial enhancements in many auditory abilities, and deficits in
others. It is unknown how severe visual losses need to be before changes in auditory …

Spatial navigation with horizontally spatialized sounds in early and late blind individuals

S Paré, M Bleau, I Djerourou, V Malotaux, R Kupers… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Blind individuals often report difficulties to navigate and to detect objects placed outside their
peri-personal space. Although classical sensory substitution devices could be helpful in this …

Auditory spatial representations of the world are compressed in blind humans

AJ Kolarik, S Pardhan, S Cirstea, BCJ Moore - Experimental Brain …, 2017 - Springer
Compared to sighted listeners, blind listeners often display enhanced auditory spatial
abilities such as localization in azimuth. However, less is known about whether blind …

The flexible action system: Click-based echolocation may replace certain visual functionality for adaptive walking.

L Thaler, X Zhang, M Antoniou, DC Kish… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
People use sensory, in particular visual, information to guide actions such as walking
around obstacles, grasping or reaching. However, it is presently unclear how malleable the …

Partial visual loss disrupts the relationship between judged room size and sound source distance

AJ Kolarik, BCJ Moore, S Cirstea, R Raman… - Experimental Brain …, 2022 - Springer
Visual spatial information plays an important role in calibrating auditory space. Blindness
results in deficits in a number of auditory abilities, which have been explained in terms of the …