Cross-modal plasticity preserves functional specialization in posterior parietal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 541-549

  Lingnau, Angelika ^a   Strnad, Lukas ^a,b   He, Chenxi ^c   Fabbri, Sara ^a   Han, Zaizhu ^c   Bi, Yanchao ^c   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Congenital blindness; Cross modal plasticity; Proprioceptively guided reaching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS MODAL PLASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTIVELY GUIDED REACHING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CROSS-MODAL PLASTICITY; PROPRIOCEPTIVELY GUIDED REACHING;

ADULT; ARM; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896353655     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs340     Document Type: Article

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