Sensitive and critical periods in visual sensory deprivation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Voss, Patrice ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Critical periods; Crossmodal plasticity; Early and late blind; Sensitive periods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885356096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00664     Document Type: Review

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