Altered tactile spatial attention in the early blind

Brain Research

Volumn 1131, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 149-154

  Forster, Bettina ^a   Eardley, Alison F ^b   Eimer, Martin ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; ERP; Spatial attention; Tactile; Use dependent plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845979892     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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