Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects

Nature

Volumn 380, Issue 6574, 1996, Pages 526-528

  Sadato, Norihiro ^a,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^b   Ibañez, Vicente ^a   Deiber, Marie Pierre ^a   Dold, George ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE STIMULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; READING; SENSORY AIDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029914588     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/380526a0     Document Type: Article

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