Pang Wenbin, Xing Hongbing, Zhang Linjun, Shu Hua, Zhang Yang
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2020 Aug;148(2):EL208. doi: 10.1121/10.0001804.
The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.
当前的研究调查了盲人在语音识别方面是否优于有视力的听众。三个受试者组，包括17名先天性盲人、18名后天失明者和18名有视力者，在即时语音识别测试中没有显示出显著差异。然而，在两周后进行的延迟测试中，先天性盲人组和后天失明者组的表现均优于有视力者组，且两个盲人组之间没有显著差异。这些结果部分证实了关于盲人在语音识别方面具有优势的轶事观察，这种优势主要存在于延迟记忆阶段，而非即时回忆和泛化阶段。
