Tests of a neuropsychological model for spatial orientation in the absence of vision were developed and administered to 31 children who are congenitally blind. The results supported the model and indicated that some congenitally blind subjects had focal brain damage, sufficient to impair their capacity to be accurately oriented in physical space.
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