Visual cortex extrastriate body-selective area activation in congenitally blind people "Seeing" by using sounds

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 687-692

  Striem Amit, Ella ^a   Amedi, Amir ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896548587     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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