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| Title |
Pitch discrimination in the early blind
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| Published in |
Nature, July 2004
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| DOI | 10.1038/430309a |
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| Authors |
Frédéric Gougoux, Franco Lepore, Maryse Lassonde, Patrice Voss, Robert J. Zatorre, Pascal Belin |
| Abstract |
Do blind people develop superior abilities in auditory perception to compensate for their lack of vision? They are known to be better than sighted people at orientating themselves by sound, but it is not clear whether this enhanced awareness extends to other auditory domains, such as listening to music or to voices. Here we show that blind people are better than sighted controls at judging the direction of pitch change between sounds, even when the speed of change is ten times faster than that perceived by the controls--but only if they became blind at an early age. The younger the onset of blindness, the better is the performance, which is in line with cerebral plasticity being optimal during the early years. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 267 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Argentina | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 2% |
| Unknown | 246 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 67 | 25% |
| Researcher | 59 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 38 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 7% |
| Professor | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 41 | 15% |
| Unknown | 29 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 74 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 21% |
| Neuroscience | 27 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 4% |
| Engineering | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 42 | 16% |
| Unknown | 43 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 June 2019.
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#413,060
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#20,222
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#352
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#11
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