Impaired egocentric spatial representations by congenital deafness: neural evidence from a multimodality neuroimaging study

The spatial location of an object can be represented relative to two types of reference frames: allocentric and egocentric. The allocentric reference frame encodes object positions relative to another background object independent of observers’ body effectors while the egocentric reference frame encodes object positions relative to observers’ own body effectors. At the behavioral level, recent evidence from our lab suggested that congenital...