14/06/2023 
Lausanne | CHUV | Auditoire Charlotte Olivier
11:30 - 12:30
We rely on integrated spatial representations that we construct during our childhood to interact with the world around us. Visual experience is crucial for integrating sensory signals into a coherent configuration, given changes in the body’s position in space. When vision is absent, as in the case of blind infants, the way in which the representation of space develops is not yet clear.
In this conference, Prof. Monica Gori (IIT) will present her results to identify specific developmental periods where visual experience is crucial for establishing multisensory associations between vision and other modalities. She will show results in blind infants, blind children, and adolescents taking into account developmental windows when spatial skills are acquired in sighted children.
By elucidating these aspects, she will contribute to the understanding of spatial representations to determine how visual experiences shape their development. In the last part of the talk, she will inaugurate a new quantitative methodology to restore coherent spatial representations through multisensory training for blind children and adults and some inputs for early intervention in blind infants.