Recruitment of occipital cortex during sensory substitution training linked to subjective experience of seeing in people with blindness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ortiz, Tomás ^a   Poch, Joaquín ^b   Santos, Juan M ^a,c   Requena, Carmen ^d   Martínez, Ana M ^a   Ortiz Terán, Laura ^a,e   Turrero, Agustín ^a   Barcia, Juan ^b   Nogales, Ramón ^a   Calvo, Agustín ^a   Martínez, José M ^a   Córdoba, José L ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRODE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSATION; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051602129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023264     Document Type: Article

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