Neural networks for Braille reading by the blind

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1213-1229

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

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

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Braille; Multimodal plasticity; PET; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY AIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOUCH;

EID: 0031817011     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.7.1213     Document Type: Article

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