A new study supported by the EU-funded weDRAW project has shown that the deficit disappears if congenitally blind individuals are presented with coherent temporal and spatial cues.
The popular belief is that blindness enhances other senses such as hearing. Several studies show that while blind people’s other senses are not more acute, they do use auditory modality as a substitute to interpret some spatial representations. However, auditory precision might be impaired in congenitally blind individuals performing an audio-space bisection task. The findings were recently published in the journal iScience.