Neural correlates of virtual route recognition in congenital blindness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12716-12721

  Kupers, Ron ^a   Chebat, Daniel R ^b   Madsen, Kristoffer H ^c   Paulson, Olaf B ^c,d   Ptito, Maurice ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross modal plasticity; Parahippocampus; Sensory substitution; Spatial navigation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TONGUE; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77955459828     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006199107     Document Type: Article

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