Functional recruitment of visual cortex for sound encoded object identification in the blind

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 132-138

  Merabet, Lotfi B ^a,c   Battelli, Lorella ^a   Obretenova, Souzana ^a   Maguire, Sara ^a   Meijer, Peter ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Occipital cortex; Plasticity; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Sensory substitution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL TO AUDITORY SENSORY SUBSTITUTION DEVICE; ALGORITHM; COGNITION; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHENES; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 59149103844     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832104dc     Document Type: Article

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