Plasticity of multisensory dorsal stream functions: Evidence from congenitally blind and sighted adults

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-205

  Fiehler, Katja ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; Kinesthesia; Motor control; Posterior parietal cortex; Proprioception; Space perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DORSAL STREAM; EARLY INTERVENTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY EVALUATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX; TRAINING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 77952353822     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0500     Document Type: Review

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