Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6647, 1997, Pages 180-183

  Cohen, Leonardo G ^a   Celnik, Pablo ^a,b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c,d   Corwell, Brian ^a   Faiz, Lala ^a   Dambrosia, James ^a   Honda, Manabu ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^e   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Dolores Catala M ^b   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; READING; SENSORY AIDS; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ROMAN;

EID: 0030866775     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38278     Document Type: Article

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