Decoding the direction of auditory motion in blind humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 681-687

  Wolbers, Thomas ^a   Zahorik, Pavel ^b   Giudice, Nicholas A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MOTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 79955005690     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.266     Document Type: Article

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