Visuotactile interactions in the congenitally acallosal brain: Evidence for early cerebral plasticity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3908-3916

  Wolf, Claudia C ^a   Ball, Anna ^a   Ocklenburg, Sebastian ^a   Otto, Tobias ^a   Heed, Tobias ^b   Röder, Brigitte ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agenesis of the corpus callosum; Crossmodal congruency task; Interhemispheric interaction; Multisensory; Neuronal plasticity; Visuotactile

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855221651     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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