The role of visual experience on the representation and updating of novel haptic scenes

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-194

  Pasqualotto, Achille ^a   Newell, Fiona N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Congenitally and late blind; Haptics; Hippocampus; Partietal cortex; Scene recognition; Spatial updating; Visual experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOGNOSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35148814491     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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