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Image: A baby is touching an object
Source: Italian Institute of Technology
According to a new study, visually impaired babies rely more on touch than hearing to respond to the world around them, but both senses will be important when designing tools to help them develop
Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom conducted a study to compare the response of visually and visually impaired babies to different stimuli
Babies with sight respond more to auditory stimuli, while infants with impaired vision respond more to tactile stimuli
This research was published in "Contemporary Biology" by a team from the unit for the blind (U-VIP) history dog di Tecnologia Genoa (Italy), in collaboration with the University of Birmingham's School Psychology Laboratory (UK), the Center for Children Neurophthalmology IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia (Italy) and Elfi Del Bosto Nursery (Italy)
This collaboration originated from a project funded by the European Research Council to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) principal researcher, Dr.
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Visually impaired babies can respond to auditory and tactile stimuli
The results show that visually impaired infants have poor ability to integrate touch and sound
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The co-author of the research report, Professor Andrew Bremner of the University of Birmingham, said: "We know a lot about how visually impaired adults and children see the world, because we can ask them and there are many resources available to help them develop.
"It is much more difficult to understand how visually impaired babies develop their awareness and response to the world around them, but it is also very important to support them effectively at this early, critical stage of development
Researchers believe that these findings provide hope for early sensory intervention or rehabilitation tools that may help visually impaired babies learn more about the world around them and themselves
DOI
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Article title
Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants
