Event-related potentials during auditory language processing in congenitally blind and sighted people

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1482-1502

  Röder, Brigitte ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a   Neville, Helen J ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal compensation; Language perception; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343603551     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00057-9     Document Type: Article

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