The Development of Visual Areas Depends Differently on Visual Experience

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Qin, Wen ^a   Liu, Yong ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^b   Yu, Chunshui ^a,c  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872154418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053784     Document Type: Article

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