Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
332024 Psychiatry Research 2007 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Vision is the key sensory system in humans, leading to the implicit assumption that the acquisition of spider phobia is predominantly mediated through the visual pathway. We report on a congenitally blind person with spider phobia, showing that the acquisition of spider phobia does not necessarily depend on visual cues.

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