Occipito-parietal cortex activation during visuo-spatial imagery in early blind humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 698-709

  Vanlierde, Annick ^a   De Volder, Anne G ^a   Wanet Defalque, Marie Chantal ^a   Veraart, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Human blindness; Positron emission tomography; Visuo spatial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0042170208     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00153-8     Document Type: Article

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