Speech processing activates visual cortex in congenitally blind humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 930-936

  Röder, Brigitte ^a   Stock, Oliver ^a   Bien, Siegfried ^a   Neville, Helen ^b   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal compensation; fMRI; Language; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036459402     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02147.x     Document Type: Article

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