Multisensory perceptual learning and sensory substitution

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-25

  Proulx, Michael J ^a   Brown, David J ^b   Pasqualotto, Achille ^b   Meijer, Peter ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Metamodal BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blindness; Multisensory processing; Neural plasticity; Perceptual learning; Reverse hierarchy theory; Sensory deprivation; Sensory substitution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898916390     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.11.017     Document Type: Review

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