Audiotactile integration is reduced in congenital blindness in a spatial ventriloquism task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-43

  Occelli, Valeria ^a,b   Bruns, Patrick ^a   Zampini, Massimiliano ^b   Röder, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Audiotactile; Auditory; Blindness; Spatial; Tactile; Ventriloquism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855734632     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.019     Document Type: Article

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