Mind the blind brain to understand the sighted one! Is there a supramodal cortical functional architecture?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-77

  Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a   Bonino, Daniela ^a   Pellegrini, Silvia ^a   Pietrini, Pietro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Blindness; Brain functional architecture; Brain imaging; Cross modal plasticity; Mental representation; Supramodality

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898838343     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.006     Document Type: Review

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