Spatial and nonspatial peripheral auditory processing in congenitally blind people

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1449-1452

  Chen, Qi ^a,c   Zhang, Ming ^c   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blind; Inhibition of return; Nonspatial; Peripheral auditory attention; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONSPATIAL PERIPHERAL AUDITORY PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL PERIPHERAL AUDITORY PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 33748071754     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000233103.51149.52     Document Type: Article

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