Language networks in anophthalmia: Maintained hierarchy of processing in 'visual' cortex

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1566-1577

  Watkins, Kate E ^a,b   Cowey, Alan ^b   Alexander, Iona ^b   Filippini, Nicola ^a,b   Kennedy, James M ^a   Smith, Stephen M ^a   Ragge, Nicola ^c,d   Bridge, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

congenital blindness; cross modal plasticity; functional MRI; functional reorganization; vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 84860602174     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws067     Document Type: Article

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