More accurate sound localization induced by short-term light deprivation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1215-1222

  Lewald, Jörg ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory plasticity; Blindness; Crossmodal compensation; Hearing; Humans

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTICITY; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33846103118     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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