Adaptive crossmodal plasticity in deaf auditory cortex. Areal and laminar contributions to supranormal vision in the deaf

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue , 2011, Pages 251-270

  Lomber, Stephen G ^a   Meredith, M Alex ^b   Kral, Andrej ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital deafness; Cortical plasticity; Dorsal zone; Posterior auditory field; Reversible deactivation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOOK; CAT; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 79960054660     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53752-2.00001-1     Document Type: Chapter

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