Impact of blindness onset on the functional organization and the connectivity of the occipital cortex

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2769-2783

  Collignon, Olivier ^a,b,c   Dormal, Giulia ^c,d   Albouy, Geneviève ^e   Vandewalle, Gilles ^f   Voss, Patrice ^c   Phillips, Christophe ^f   Lepore, Franco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

blindness; crossmodal plasticity; dynamic causal modelling; functional integration; functional specialization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

EID: 84883390096     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt176     Document Type: Article

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