Putzar Lisa, Goerendt Ines, Lange Kathrin, Rösler Frank, Röder Brigitte
Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 11, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
Nat Neurosci. 2007 Oct;10(10):1243-5. doi: 10.1038/nn1978. Epub 2007 Sep 16.
Animal studies have shown that visual deprivation during the first months of life permanently impairs the interactions between sensory systems. Here we report an analogous effect for humans who had been deprived of pattern vision for at least the first five months of their life as a result of congenital binocular cataracts. These patients showed reduced audio-visual interactions in later life, although their visual performance in control tasks was unimpaired. Thus, adequate (multisensory) input during the first months of life seems to be a prerequisite in humans, as well as in animals, for the full development of cross-modal interactions.
动物研究表明，生命最初几个月的视觉剥夺会永久性损害感觉系统之间的相互作用。在此，我们报告了对于因先天性双眼白内障在生命的至少前五个月被剥夺图案视觉的人类的类似影响。这些患者在晚年表现出视听相互作用减少，尽管他们在对照任务中的视觉表现未受损。因此，生命最初几个月充足的（多感官）输入似乎是人类以及动物跨模态相互作用充分发展的一个先决条件。
