Retinotopically Specific Reorganization of Visual Cortex for Tactile Pattern Recognition

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 596-601

  Cheung, Sing Hang ^a,b   Fang, Fang ^c   He, Sheng ^b   Legge, Gordon E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 64049098090     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.063     Document Type: Article

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