Insights from darkness. what the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function.

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue , 2011, Pages 17-31

  Kupers, Ron ^a   Ptito, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain rewiring; Cross modal plasticity; Qualia; Sensory substitution; Supramodal cortical organization; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALBINDIN; PARVALBUMIN;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; BOOK; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79960202494     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53355-5.00002-6     Document Type: Chapter

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