Enhanced reactivity to visual stimuli in deaf individuals

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-179

  Bottari, Davide ^a   Nava, Elena ^a   Ley, Pia ^b   Pavani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Christoph Dornier Foundation for Clinical Psychology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deafness; Multisensory; Plasticity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952362667     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0502     Document Type: Article

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