Numbers in the blind's eye

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Salillas, Elena ^a   Graná, Alessia ^b   El Yagoubi, Radouane ^c   Semenza, Carlo ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67749116543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006357     Document Type: Article

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