Relevance of spectral cues for auditory spatial processing in the occipital cortex of the blind

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Voss, Patrice ^a,b   Lepore, Franco ^c   Gougoux, Frédéric ^c   Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS)   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory spatial processing; Blindness; Crossmodal reorganization; Functional neuroimaging; PET; Spectral cues; Visual cortex plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051763426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00048     Document Type: Article

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