Assistive technology for the visually impaired and blind people is a research field that is
gaining increasing prominence owing to an explosion of new interest in it from disparate …

Animal studies have shown that sensory deprivation in one modality can have striking
effects on the development of the remaining modalities. Although recent studies of deaf and …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied
agents are deaf—restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce …

The metaphor of a" cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in
the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban …

In this timely and comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their
recently developed experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

Research in multisensory processes has exploded over the last decade. Tremendous
advances have been made in a variety of fields from single-unit neural recordings and …

Spatial navigation in the absence of vision has been investigated from a variety of
perspectives and disciplines. These different approaches have progressed our …

We have used positron emission tomography (PET) to measure regional cerebral blood flow
(rCBF) in sighted and congenitally blind subjects performing auditory localization tasks …