The involvement of occipital cortex in the early blind in auditory and tactile duration discrimination tasks

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1541-1556

  Van Der Lubbe, Rob H J ^a,b   Van Mierlo, Christa M ^a,c   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953792488     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21285     Document Type: Article

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