Recruitment of the middle temporal area by tactile motion in congenital blindness

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 543-547

  Ptito, Maurice ^a,b   Matteau, Isabelle ^a   Gjedde, Albert ^c   Kupers, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Dorsal stream; Middle temporal area; Motion; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; BLINDNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67049133262     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283279909     Document Type: Article

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