The performance of blind Ss differed from that of sighted Ss on an auditory task in which both binaural cues were present, but in opposition. When the task was lateralization, the blind Ss relied more heavily on interaural time information than on interaural intensity differences, but, unlike sighted Ss, this occurred independent of their relative sensitivities to each of the two cues when presented separately in detection or lateralization tasks.
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