Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Auditory Motion Information in MT+ of Both Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Strnad, Lukas ^a,b   Peelen, Marius V ^a   Bedny, Marina ^c,d   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MOTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MOTION AREA MT+; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; HEARING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84876992957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063198     Document Type: Article

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