Table 1 Demographic details of participants.

From: Congenitally blind adults can learn to identify face-shapes via auditory sensory substitution and successfully generalize some of the learned features

Participant

Age

Blindness cause

Light perception

Age at blindness onset

Braille reading

Handedness

Participation in Part I: Interim testing

Part II: face identification

Part III: rapid face training

FO

33

Microphthalmia

No

0

Yes (since age 5)

Right

 

V

V

ElMa

36

Retinopathy of prematurity

No

0

Yes (since age 5)

Right

V

  

JH

42

Leber’s disease

Faint

0

Yes (since age 5)

Ambidextrous

V

V

V

NN

45

Retinopathy of prematurity

No

0

Yes (since age 6)

Right

V

V

V

PC

41

Retinopathy of prematurity

No

0

Yes (since age 6)

Right

V

V

V

PH

42

Rubella

No

0

Yes (since age 5)

Right

 

V

V

FN

33

Leber’s Disease

Faint

0

Yes (since age 5)

Right

 

V

V

DS

34

Retinopathy of prematurity

No

0

Yes (since age 6)

Right

 

V

V

UM

39

Retinoblastoma

No

3

Yes (since age 4)

Ambidextrous

V

 

V

HB

27

Anophtalmia, fall

No

< 1

Yes (since age 4)

Left

V

V

V

UM

33

Anophtalmia

No

0

Yes

–

V

  

DK

27

unknown

No

No

Yes (since age 4)

Ambidextrous

 

V

 
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