Event-related potentials during auditory and somatosensory discrimination in sighted and blind human subjects

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 77-93

  Röder, Brigitte ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a   Hennighausen, Erwin ^a   Näcker, Fritz ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory event related brain potential; Blindness; DC potential; Human; Neural plasticity; Slow wave; Somatosensory event related brain potential

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030247020     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6410(96)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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