Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cardin, Velia ^a,b   Orfanidou, Eleni ^a,c   Rönnberg, Jerker ^b   Capek, Cheryl M ^d   Rudner, Mary ^b   Woll, Bencie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HEARING; HOMINID; NEUROLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIALIZATION; VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SOUND; SWEDEN; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84874644442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2463     Document Type: Article

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