Do deaf individuals see better?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 512-518

  Bavelier, Daphne ^a   Dye, Matthew W G ^a   Hauser, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DEPRIVATION; AUDITORY VISUAL CONVERGENCE; HIGHER ORDER CORTEX; VISUAL COGNITION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; REVIEW; VISION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750165460     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.09.006     Document Type: Review

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