Do the congenitally blind have a stria of gennari? first intracortical insights in vivo

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2075-2081

  Trampel, Robert ^a   Ott, Derek V M ^a,b   Turner, Robert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 T MRI; blind; plasticity; primary visual cortex; stria of Gennari

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRIA OF GENNARI; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051719662     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq282     Document Type: Article

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