Blindness and brain plasticity: Contribution of mental imagery? An fMRI study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Lambert, S ^a,b   Sampaio, E ^c   Mauss, Y ^a   Scheiber, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

BA; Blindness; Brain plasticity; Brodmann's area; Cognition; Mental imagery; Neural basis of behavior; primary visual area; PVA; region of interest; ROI; SPM; statistical parametric mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 2342531749     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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