Auditory triggered mental imagery of shape involves visual association areas in early blind humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 14, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 129-139

  De Volder, Anne G ^a,b   Toyama, Hinako ^a,c   Kimura, Yuichi ^a   Kiyosawa, Motohiro ^a,d   Nakano, Hideki ^e   Vanlierde, Annick ^b   Wanet Defalque, Marie Chantal ^b   Mishina, Masahiro ^a,f   Oda, Keiichi ^a   Ishiwata, Kiichi ^a   Senda, Michio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Human blindness; Neural plasticity; Positron emission tomography; Visual cortex (extrastriate)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034977395     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2001.0782     Document Type: Article

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