Cortical activation during Braille reading is influenced by early visual experience in subjects with severe visual disability: A correlational fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 186-195

  Melzer, Peter ^a   Morgan, Victoria L ^b   Pickens, David R ^b   Price, Ronald R ^b   Wall, Robert S ^a   Ebner, Ford F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Braille; Cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neural activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGING; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SENSORY AIDS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034762677     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.1051     Document Type: Article

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