Pointing at targets by children with congenital and transient blindness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-179

  Gaunet, Florence ^a,d   Ittyerah, Miriam ^b   Rossetti, Yves ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947302710     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0720-3     Document Type: Article

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