Adaptive changes in early and late blind: A fMRI study of verb generation to heard nouns

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3359-3371

  Burton, H ^a   Snyder, A Z ^a   Diamond, J B ^a   Raichle, M E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036899657     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00129.2002     Document Type: Article

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