Nonvisual and visual object shape representations in occipitotemporal cortex: Evidence from congenitally blind and sighted adults

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 163-170

  Peelen, Marius V ^a   He, Chenxi ^b   Han, Zaizhu ^b   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,c   Bi, Yanchao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLAUCOMA; HAND PALM; HANDEDNESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84891473159     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1114-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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