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Evaluation of an Audio-haptic Sensory Substitution Device for Enhancing Spatial Awareness for the Visually Impaired

SIGNIFICANCE: Visually impaired participants were surprisingly fast in learning a new sensory substitution device, which allows them to detect obstacles within a 3.5-m radius and to find the optimal path in between. Within a few hours of training, participants successfully performed complex navigati...

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Autores principales: Hoffmann, Rebekka, Spagnol, Simone, Kristjánsson, Árni, Unnthorsson, Runar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000001284