Large-scale brain plasticity following blindness and the use of sensory substitution devices

Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 351-380

  Bubic, Andreja ^a   Striem Amit, Ella ^a   Amedi, Amir ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5615-6_18     Document Type: Chapter

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