Resting state functional connectivity in early blind humans

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Burton, Harold ^a,b   Snyder, Abraham Z ^b   Raichle, Marcus E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Human; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREVALENCE; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SENSORY SYSTEM; VENTRAL ATTENTION NETWORK; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84898739329     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00051     Document Type: Article

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