Visual dreams in the congenitally blind?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 328-330

  Lopes Da Silva, Fernando H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NEUROLOGY; VISION;

BLIND PERSONS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ALPHA RHYTHM; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; RETINA IMAGE; SCALP; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION;

EID: 0042090588     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00155-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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