A positron emission tomography study during auditory localization by late-onset blind individuals

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-388

  Voss, Patrice ^a   Gougoux, Frédéric ^a   Lassonde, Maryse ^a   Zatorre, Robert J ^b   Lepore, Franco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory localization; Cross modal reorganization; Late onset blindness; Positron emission tomography; Visual cortex plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646695704     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000204983.21748.2d     Document Type: Article

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