Visual experience facilitates allocentric spatial representation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 175-179

  Pasqualotto, Achille ^a   Spiller, Mary Jane ^b   Jansari, Ashok S ^b   Proulx, Michael J ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866290830     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.042     Document Type: Article

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