Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Thaler, Lore ^a   Arnott, Stephen R ^b   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957510159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020162     Document Type: Article

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