Enhanced speech perception capabilities in a blind listener are associated with activation of fusiform gyrus and primary visual cortex

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-170

  Hertrich, Ingo ^a   Dietrich, Susanne ^a   Moos, Anja ^b   Trouvain, Jürgen ^b   Ackermann, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; fMRI; Neuroplasticity; Speech perception; Speech rate; Synthetic speech; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEARING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; RETINOPATHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 65349118151     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802709054     Document Type: Article

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