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. 2011 May;14(5):551-3.
doi: 10.1038/nn.2795. Epub 2011 Apr 10.

The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

Richard Held  1 , Yuri Ostrovsky, Beatrice de Gelder, Tapan Gandhi, Suma Ganesh, Umang Mathur, Pawan Sinha
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The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

Richard Held et al. Nat Neurosci. 2011 May.

Erratum in

  • Nat Neurosci. 2011 Sep;14(9):1217. deGelder, Beatrice [corrected to de Gelder, Beatrice]

Abstract

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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