Sensory rehabilitation in the plastic brain

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue , 2011, Pages 211-231

  Collignon, Olivier ^a,b   Champoux, François ^c   Voss, Patrice ^a   Lepore, Franco ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION OF GREATER MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Deafness; Neuroplasticity; Neuroprosthesis; Rehabilitation; Sensory substitution

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BLINDNESS; BOOK; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SENSATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY REHABILITATION; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79960049643     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53752-2.00003-5     Document Type: Chapter

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