Early 'visual' cortex activation correlates with superior verbal memory performance in the blind

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 758-766

  Amedi, Amir ^a   Raz, Noa ^a   Pianka, Pazit ^c   Malach, Rafael ^b   Zohary, Ehud ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAILLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; READING; REST; SENSORY AIDS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0038392753     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1072     Document Type: Article

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