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Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology Volume 5, 2010 - Issue 3
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Research Paper

Vision substitution and depth perception: Early blind subjects experience visual perspective through their ears

Laurent RenierNeural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, UCL 54-46, B-1200, Brussels, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Anne G. De VolderNeural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, UCL 54-46, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium
Pages 175-183 | Accepted 01 Aug 2009, Published online: 23 Apr 2010

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