Critical period for cross-modal plasticity in blind humans: A functional MRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 389-400

  Sadato, Norihiro ^a,b,c   Okada, Tomohisa ^a   Honda, Manabu ^a   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0036334876     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1111     Document Type: Article

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