Preserved functional specialization for spatial processing in the middle occipital gyrus of the early blind

Neuron

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-148

  Renier, Laurent A ^a,b   Anurova, Irina ^a,c   De Volder, Anne G ^b   Carlson, Synnöve ^c,d,e   VanMeter, John ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUND DETECTION; TOUCH; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 77957299060     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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