Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6740, 1999, Pages 162-166

  Röder, Brigitte ^a   Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang ^b   Sterr, Anette ^c   Rösler, Frank ^a   Hillyard, Steven A ^b   Neville, Helen J ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345211544     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22106     Document Type: Article

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