A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 162-170

  Bedny, Marina ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b,c   Dravida, Swethasri ^a   Saxe, Rebecca ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blind; Critical period; Development; Foveal; Language evolution; Pericalcarine; Plasticity; Sensitive period; Sentence comprehension; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BOLD SIGNAL; CALCARINE SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATE BLIND; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ONSET AGE; PERICALCARINE CORTEX; RETINA FOVEA; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865572772     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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