A positron emission tomographic study of auditory localization in the congenitally blind

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2664-2672

  Weeks, Robert ^a   Horwitz, Barry ^b   Aziz Sultan, Ali ^a   Tian, Biao ^c   Wessinger, C Mark ^c   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^c  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal plasticity; Extrastriate; Parietal cortex; Positron emission tomography; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; VISION;

EID: 0034175673     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-07-02664.2000     Document Type: Article

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