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Open AccessExploring the Link Between Sensory Processing and Psychopathology in a Community Sample of Young Adults: Bayesian Network Analyses
Sensory processing is a fundamental aspect of human experience, and varies significantly between individuals, potentially affecting individual functioning, behaviour, and mental health. This study investigate...
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Open AccessThe Suite for the Assessment of Low-Level cues on Orientation (SALLO): The psychophysics of spatial orientation in virtual reality
Spatial orientation is a complex ability that emerges from the interaction of several systems in a way that is still unclear. One of the reasons limiting the research on the topic is the lack of methodologies ...
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Open AccessMovement-related tactile gating in blindness
When we perform an action, self-elicited movement induces suppression of somatosensory information to the cortex, requiring a correct motor-sensory and inter-sensory (i.e. cutaneous senses, kinesthesia, and pr...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Young children can use their subjective straight-ahead to remap visuo-motor alterations
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Open AccessYoung children can use their subjective straight-ahead to remap visuo-motor alterations
Young children and adults process spatial information differently: the former use their bodies as primary reference, while adults seem capable of using abstract frames. The transition is estimated to occur bet...
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Open AccessTemporal visual representation elicits early auditory-like responses in hearing but not in deaf individuals
It is evident that the brain is capable of large-scale reorganization following sensory deprivation, but the extent of such reorganization is to date, not clear. The auditory modality is the most accurate to r...
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Open AccessHow much I moved: Robust biases in self-rotation perception
Vestibular cues are crucial to sense the linear and angular acceleration of our head in three-dimensional space. Previous literature showed that vestibular information precociously combines with other sensory ...
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Open AccessTime in schizophrenia: a link between psychopathology, psychophysics and technology
It has been widely demonstrated that time processing is altered in patients with schizophrenia. This perspective review delves into such temporal deficit and highlights its link to low-level sensory alteration...
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Open AccessFace masks affect perception of happy faces in deaf people
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has led significant social repercussions and forced people to wear face masks. Recent research has demonstrated that the human ability to infer emotions from facial configurations is si...
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Open AccessInforming the design of a multisensory learning environment for elementary mathematics learning
It is well known that primary school children may face difficulties in acquiring mathematical competence, possibly because teaching is generally based on formal lessons with little opportunity to exploit more ...
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The Audio-Corsi: an acoustic virtual reality-based technological solution for evaluating audio-spatial memory abilities
Spatial memory is a cognitive skill that allows the recall of information about the space, its layout, and items’ locations. We present a novel application built around 3D spatial audio technology to evaluate ...
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Open AccessDifferent mechanisms of magnitude and spatial representation for tactile and auditory modalities
The human brain creates an external world representation based on magnitude judgments by estimating distance, numerosity, or size. The magnitude and spatial representation are hypothesized to rely on common me...
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Open AccessImmersive virtual reality interferes with default head–trunk coordination strategies in young children
The acquisition of postural control is an elaborate process, which relies on the balanced integration of multisensory inputs. Current models suggest that young children rely on an ‘en-block’ control of their u...
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Open AccessBalance, gait, and navigation performance are related to physical exercise in blind and visually impaired children and adolescents
Self-motion perception used for locomotion and navigation requires the integration of visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive input. In the absence of vision, postural stability and locomotor tasks become more ...
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Open AccessComparison of auditory spatial bisection and minimum audible angle in front, lateral, and back space
Although vision is important for calibrating auditory spatial perception, it only provides information about frontal sound sources. Previous studies of blind and sighted people support the idea that azimuthal ...
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Open AccessHand size underestimation grows during childhood
Cortical body size representations are distorted in the adult, from low-level motor and sensory maps to higher levels multisensory and cognitive representations. Little is known about how such representations ...
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Open AccessPeripheral sounds elicit stronger activity in contralateral occipital cortex in blind than sighted individuals
Previous research has shown that peripheral, task-irrelevant sounds elicit activity in contralateral visual cortex of sighted people, as revealed by a sustained positive deflection in the event-related potenti...
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Open AccessThe Role of Visual Experience in Auditory Space Perception around the Legs
It is widely accepted that vision plays a key role in the development of spatial skills of the other senses. Recent works have shown that blindness is often associated with auditory spatial deficits. The major...
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Open AccessKinematic Profile of Visually Impaired Football Players During Specific Sports Actions
Blind football, or Football 5-a-side, is a very popular sport amongst visually impaired individuals (VI) worldwide. However, little is known regarding the movement patterns these players perform in sports acti...
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Open AccessEnhanced audio-tactile multisensory interaction in a peripersonal task after echolocation
Peripersonal space (PPS) is created by a multisensory interaction between different sensory modalities and can be modified by experience. In this article, we investigated whether an auditory training, inside t...
