Short-term crossmodal plasticity of the auditory steady-state response in blindfolded sighted individuals

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1630-1636

  Lazzouni, Latifa ^a   Voss, Patrice ^a   Lepore, Franco ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindfold; Reorganisation; Visual auditory cortices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STEADY STATE RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSMODAL PLASTICITY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MONAURAL LISTENING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861227309     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08088.x     Document Type: Article

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