[Blindtlk] To Visualize or not to Visualize: That is the question:)!

[Mike Freeman]

I do not fit in the category. However, my sense from talking with many who
lost their vision in childhood or young adulthood is that they visualized in
sighted terms much when they first lost their sight but gradually did less
of this as they progressed through life as blind persons.

However, I suspect this depends very much on the individual.

Mike Freeman

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Subject: [Blindtlk] To Visualize or not to Visualize: That is the
question:)!

Hi All,
  I have a question I would love to pose to the list. This comes from a
discussion that I was having with the students in one of the classes I am
teaching this morning.

 We were talking about whether the students  believed that if they were to
lose all of their vision as adults, would they visualize their surroundings
(i.e., having visual spatial maps of locations in your head, picturing  what
others look like, picturing what you are physically doing...). This lead to
a really engaging and actually quite positive and eye-opening so-to-speak
discussion that was really encouraging to see. The discussion was part of an
upper-level course in psychology.

  Thus, based on their discussion, I was curious what others here  who lost
all or at least all usable vision during adulthood do? In other words, do
you visualize or not and why?

  I have to say that I was really  pleasantly surprised about how open and
professional they acted about the question when having to discuss it in
front of me as this is exactly my situation (lost total vision as a young
adult).
Have a wonderful almost weekend all!
Chris
Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu<mailto:szostak.1 at osu.edu>
cszostak at shorter.edu

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