Psychophysiology and imaging of visual cortical functions in the blind: A review

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 71-81

  Simon Dack, Stephanie L ^a   Rodriguez, P Dennis ^b   Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang A ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Brain imaging; EEG; ERP; FMRI; PET; Plasticity; TMS; Visual function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BLINDNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 68649100197     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/917492     Document Type: Article

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