Enhanced sensitivity to echo cues in blind subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 515-519

  Dufour, André ^a   Després, Olivier ^a   Candas, Victor ^a  

^a UPS 858   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory compensation; Blind; Cross modal plasticity; Echo processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 24044501665     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2329-3     Document Type: Article

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