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Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams?

The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dream connoisseurs is: to...

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Autor principal: Andrade, Michael J. O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8340899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34381585
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20200068
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description The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dream connoisseurs is: to what extent the absence or loss of vision will affect the sensory sensitivity for dream construction. Sensory modalities other than vision (tactile and auditory) can influence the functional development of the occipitotemporal visual system in the absence of visual stimulation early in life. What I mean is that blind individuals have significantly less visual capacity, but they also have an increase in the number of auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sound impressions.
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spelling pubmed-83408992021-08-10 Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? Andrade, Michael J. O. Sleep Sci Correspondences The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dream connoisseurs is: to what extent the absence or loss of vision will affect the sensory sensitivity for dream construction. Sensory modalities other than vision (tactile and auditory) can influence the functional development of the occipitotemporal visual system in the absence of visual stimulation early in life. What I mean is that blind individuals have significantly less visual capacity, but they also have an increase in the number of auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sound impressions. Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8340899/ /pubmed/34381585 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20200068 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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