The role of visual experience for the neural basis of spatial cognition

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1179-1187

  Pasqualotto, Achille ^a   Proulx, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Multisensory integration; Neural plasticity; Reference frames; Sensory deprivation; Spatial cognition; Spatial representation; Visual experience

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; CELL MATURATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; HEARING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPATIAL COGNITION; VISION;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COGNITION; HUMANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857327865     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.01.008     Document Type: Review

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