Neuroplasticity associated with tactile language communication in a deaf-blind subject

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2010, Pages

  Obretenova, Souzana ^a   Halko, Mark A ^a   Plow, Ela B ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a   Merabet, Lotfi B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Deafness; Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI; Neuroplasticity; Tactile language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957724851     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.060.2009     Document Type: Article

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