Tactile perception recruits functionally related visual areas in the late-blind

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1381-1384

  Goyal, Manu S ^a,b   Hansen, Peter J ^b   Blakemore, Colin B ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Fusiform face area; hMT V5; Human area MT V5; Imagery; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; READING; SENSORY AIDS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 33748037678     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000227990.23046.fe     Document Type: Article

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