New Research Explores How Visually Impaired Babies Perceive the World

27th September, 2021

1 October 2021, Nesletter, News, Visually Impaired

[Source: Medical X-Press]

Visually impaired babies rely more on touch than hearing to respond to the world around them, but both senses will be important in designing tools to help them develop, according to new research.

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology), in Italy, and the University of Birmingham, in the UK, collaborated on a study to compare how sighted and visually impaired babies reacted to different stimuli.

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