Figure 1
From: A novel paradigm to study spatial memory skills in blind individuals through the auditory modality
Audio scene. Each square represents a haptic block as indicated by the square highlighted in red on the top right corner of the figure (represented as plain for illustration purposes): the smaller squares composing the haptic block are the pads (16 for each block) and the speaker is at the centre of the haptic block (indicated by red dot). The sounds used in the semantic condition are represented as pictures displaced on the Arena surface, each of them indicates the sound the speaker emitted (e.g. bee buzzing or wind blowing). In order to make the scene realistic, sounds related to the sky are on the top of the device. Sounds related to the ground are at the centre, while sounds related to the nature (animals and pond) are emitted from the bottom loudspeakers. The haptic block on the top right corner emitted the airplane sound. The images showed in the figure were downloaded by a royalty-free images web archive (https://publicdomainvectors.org/).
