Letter on the pain of blind people for the use of those who can see their pain
(2023) PAIN® — Vol. 164, n° 7, p. 1451-1456 (2023)
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- (en) Blindness has always fascinated artists, philosophers, and also scientists. Blindness is defined as visual impairment presenting visual acuity worse than 3/60 (ie, categories 4-6 of the WHO)77; neuroscience and psychology studies usually include only categories 5 (visual acuity worse than 1/6 with light perception) and 6 (no light perception). On the one hand, observing the behavior of a person who never had visual experience helps us to understand the role and importance of vision in acquiring knowledge about the world around us. Contrasting the performance of sighted and blind people in a task testing a particular cognitive ability makes it possible to understand how this ability has been shaped in sighted people by their visual experience. On the other hand, studying blind persons also helps to understand how they compensate for the lack of vision to adapt to their environment. [...]
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Legrain, V., Filbrich, L., & Vanderclausen, C. (2023). Letter on the pain of blind people for the use of those who can see their pain. PAIN®, 164(7), 1451-1456. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002862 (Original work published 2023)