Performance of Blind and Sighted Persons on Spatial Tasks

Abstract

This article reports on a study of the performance by congenitally blind, adventitiously blind, and sighted persons on three types of tasks: manipulatory, simple locomotion, and complex locomotion. The three groups of subjects tended to perform equivalently, and the results offer little evidence of a set of spatial processes that rely on past visual experience and are applicable to a broad variety of tasks.