Visual cortex activation in late-onset, Braille naive blind individuals: An fMRI study during semantic and phonological tasks with heard words

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 38-42

  Burton, Harold ^a,b   McLaren, Donald G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Human; Magnetic resonance imaging; Physiology; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAILLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SKILL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 28744455720     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.09.015     Document Type: Article

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