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Kolarik AJ, Moore BCJ. Principles governing the effects of sensory loss on human abilities: An integrative review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2025; 169:105986. [PMID: 39710017 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2024] [Revised: 12/02/2024] [Accepted: 12/17/2024] [Indexed: 12/24/2024]
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Blindness or deafness can significantly influence sensory abilities in intact modalities, affecting communication, orientation and navigation. Explanations for why certain abilities are enhanced and others degraded include: crossmodal cortical reorganization enhances abilities by providing additional neural processing resources; and sensory processing is impaired for tasks where calibration from the normally intact sense is required for good performance. However, these explanations are often specific to tasks or modalities, not accounting for why task-dependent enhancement or degradation are observed. This paper investigates whether sensory systems operate according to a theoretical framework comprising seven general principles (the perceptual restructuring hypothesis) spanning the various modalities. These principles predict whether an ability will be enhanced or degraded following sensory loss. Evidence from a wide range of studies is discussed, to assess the validity of the principles across different combinations of impaired sensory modalities (deafness or blindness) and intact modalities (vision, audition, touch, olfaction). It is concluded that sensory systems do operate broadly according to the principles of the framework, but with some exceptions.
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- Andrew J Kolarik
- School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Cambridge Hearing Group, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Vision and Eye Research Institute, School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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- Cambridge Hearing Group, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Vision and Eye Research Institute, School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Wang X, Ren X, Wang S, Yang D, Liu S, Li M, Yang M, Liu Y, Xu Q. Validation and applicability of the music ear test on a large Chinese sample. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297073. [PMID: 38324549 PMCID: PMC10849222 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2024] Open
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In the context of extensive disciplinary integration, researchers worldwide have increasingly focused on musical ability. However, despite the wide range of available music ability tests, there remains a dearth of validated tests applicable to China. The Music Ear Test (MET) is a validated scale that has been reported to be potentially suitable for cross-cultural distribution in a Chinese sample. However, no formal translation and cross-cultural reliability/validity tests have been conducted for the Chinese population in any of the studies using the Music Ear Test. This study aims to assess the factor structure, convergence, predictiveness, and validity of the Chinese version of the MET, based on a large sample of Chinese participants (n≥1235). Furthermore, we seek to determine whether variables such as music training level, response pattern, and demographic data such as gender and age have intervening effects on the results. In doing so, we aim to provide clear indications of musical aptitude and expertise by validating an existing instrument, the Music Ear Test, and provide a valid method for further understanding the musical abilities of the Chinese sample.
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- Xiaoyu Wang
- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
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- Music College, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Rep. of Korea
- School of Arts and Design, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
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Sabourin CJ, Merrikhi Y, Lomber SG. Do blind people hear better? Trends Cogn Sci 2022; 26:999-1012. [PMID: 36207258 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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For centuries, anecdotal evidence such as the perfect pitch of the blind piano tuner or blind musician has supported the notion that individuals who have lost their sight early in life have superior hearing abilities compared with sighted people. Recently, auditory psychophysical and functional imaging studies have identified that specific auditory enhancements in the early blind can be linked to activation in extrastriate visual cortex, suggesting crossmodal plasticity. Furthermore, the nature of the sensory reorganization in occipital cortex supports the concept of a task-based functional cartography for the cerebral cortex rather than a sensory-based organization. In total, studies of early-blind individuals provide valuable insights into mechanisms of cortical plasticity and principles of cerebral organization.
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- Carina J Sabourin
- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada; Biological and Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada; Biological and Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada; Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada.
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Lubinus C, Orpella J, Keitel A, Gudi-Mindermann H, Engel AK, Roeder B, Rimmele JM. Data-Driven Classification of Spectral Profiles Reveals Brain Region-Specific Plasticity in Blindness. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:2505-2522. [PMID: 33338212 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Congenital blindness has been shown to result in behavioral adaptation and neuronal reorganization, but the underlying neuronal mechanisms are largely unknown. Brain rhythms are characteristic for anatomically defined brain regions and provide a putative mechanistic link to cognitive processes. In a novel approach, using magnetoencephalography resting state data of congenitally blind and sighted humans, deprivation-related changes in spectral profiles were mapped to the cortex using clustering and classification procedures. Altered spectral profiles in visual areas suggest changes in visual alpha-gamma band inhibitory-excitatory circuits. Remarkably, spectral profiles were also altered in auditory and right frontal areas showing increased power in theta-to-beta frequency bands in blind compared with sighted individuals, possibly related to adaptive auditory and higher cognitive processing. Moreover, occipital alpha correlated with microstructural white matter properties extending bilaterally across posterior parts of the brain. We provide evidence that visual deprivation selectively modulates spectral profiles, possibly reflecting structural and functional adaptation.
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- Christina Lubinus
- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Social Epidemiology, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Pang W, Xing H, Zhang L, Shu H, Zhang Y. Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2020; 148:EL208. [PMID: 32873006 DOI: 10.1121/10.0001804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.
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- Wenbin Pang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minnesota 55455, , , , ,
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Zhang L, Xie S, Li Y, Shu H, Zhang Y. Perception of musical melody and rhythm as influenced by native language experience. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2020; 147:EL385. [PMID: 32486795 DOI: 10.1121/10.0001179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study used the Musical Ear Test [Wallentin, Nielsen, Friis-Olivarius, Vuust, and Vuust (2010). Learn. Indiv. Diff. 20, 188-196] to compare musical aptitude of native Japanese and Chinese speakers. Although the two groups had similar overall accuracy, they showed significant differences in subtest performance. Specifically, the Chinese speakers outperformed the Japanese counterparts on the melody subtest, but the reverse was observed on the rhythm subtest. Within-group comparisons revealed that Chinese speakers performed better on the melody subtest than the rhythm subtest, while Japanese speakers showed an opposite trend. These results indicate that native language pitch and durational patterns of the listener can have a profound effect on the perception of music melody and rhythm, respectively, reflecting language-to-music transfer of learning.
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- Linjun Zhang
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Applied Psychology, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), Zhuhai, Guangdong 519087, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, , , , ,
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