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Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators (2019)
Journal Article
Norman, L., & Thaler, L. (2019). Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1912), Article 20191910. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1910

The functional specializations of cortical sensory areas were traditionally viewed as being tied to specific modalities. A radically different emerging view is that the brain is organized by task rather than sensory modality, but it has not yet been... Read More about Retinotopic-like maps of spatial sound in primary 'visual' cortex of blind human echolocators.

The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking (2019)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., Zhang, X., Antoniou, M., Kish, D., & Cowie, D. (2020). The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000697

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 sensorimotor system is. The present study investigated this by measuring... Read More about The flexible Action System: Click-based Echolocation may replace certain visual Functionality for adaptive Walking.

Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age (2019)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Chere, B., Bird, L., Taylor, E., Roome, H., Keenaghan, S., …Nardini, M. (2019). Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age. Cognition, 193, Article 104014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104014

Cue combination occurs when two independent noisy perceptual estimates are merged together as a weighted average, creating a unified estimate that is more precise than either single estimate alone. Surprisingly, this effect has not been demonstrated... Read More about Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age.

Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour (2019)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., De Vos, H., Kish, D., Antoniou, M., Baker, C., & Hornikx, M. (2019). Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 20(5), 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-019-00728-0

Some people who are blind have trained themselves in echolocation using mouth clicks. Here, we provide the first report of psychophysical and clicking data during echolocation of distance from a group of 8 blind people with experience in mouth click-... Read More about Human Click-Based Echolocation of Distance: Superfine Acuity and Dynamic Clicking Behaviour.