Shape-specific activation of occipital cortex in an early blind echolocation expert

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 938-949

  Arnott, Stephen R ^a   Thaler, Lore ^b   Milne, Jennifer L ^c   Kish, Daniel ^d   Goodale, Melvyn A ^c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d World Access for the Blind is now located in Plancentia   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Blind; Echolocation; FMRI; Occipital cortex; Retinotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE SULCUS; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ECHOLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84875296326     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.01.024     Document Type: Article

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