The parietal distance effect appears in both the congenitally blind and matched sighted controls in an acoustic number comparison task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 384, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 11-16

  Szücs, Dénes ^a,b   Csépe, Valéria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Cognition in the blind; Distance effect; Event related spectral perturbation (ERSP); Number comparison; Numerical processing; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 20444483152     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.050     Document Type: Article

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