Different cortical activation patterns in blind and sighted humans during encoding and transformation of haptic images

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 292-307

  Röder, Brigitte ^a,b   Rösler, Frank ^b   Hennighausen, Erwin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal plasticity; Haptic image processing; Mental rotation; Neural plasticity; Slow event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

EID: 0343883199     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02400.x     Document Type: Article

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