Activation of the hippocampal complex during tactile maze solving in congenitally blind subjects

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1663-1671

  Gagnon, Léa ^a,b   Schneider, Fabien C ^c,d,e   Siebner, Hartwig R ^f   Paulson, Olaf B ^f,g   Kupers, Ron ^b   Ptito, Maurice ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^f Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^g Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Cognitive maps; Cross modal plasticity; FMRI; Hippocampus; Occipital cortex; Parahippocampus; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PROPRIOCEPTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861223883     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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