Different activation patterns in the visual cortex of late and congenitally blind subjects

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 409-419

  Büchel, Christian ^a   Price, Cathy ^a   Frackowiak, R S J ^a   Friston, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Braille; Cortical plasticity; Functional imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAILLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROSCIENCE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY AIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0345798870     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.3.409     Document Type: Article

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