Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-488

  Ptito, Maurice ^a   Kupers, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal plasticity; PET imaging; Rewiring; Sensory substitution; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 30744432880     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635205000951     Document Type: Article

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