Sensory deprivation: Visual experience alters the mental number line

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-113

  Pasqualotto, Achille ^a,b,c   Taya, Shuichiro ^d   Proulx, Michael J ^a,b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d TAISHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blindness; Brain plasticity; Number representation; Parietal cortex; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN PLASTICITY; NUMBER REPRESENTATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; SPATIAL REPRESENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84891061341     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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