Visual cortex activation in bilingual blind individuals during use of native and second language

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1249-1259

  Ofan, Renana H ^a   Zohary, Ehud ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Congenital blindness; Cortical plasticity; Critical period; fMRI; Second language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE; VISUAL CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34347216040     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl039     Document Type: Article

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