“Seeing” through the tongue: Cross-modal plasticity in the congenitally blind

International Congress Series

Volumn 1270, Issue C, 2004, Pages 79-84

  Kupers, Ron ^a   Ptito, Maurice ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congenitally blind; Cross modal plasticity; Occipital cortex; Sensory substitution; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646570959     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2004.04.053     Document Type: Article

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