Real world navigation independence in the early blind correlates with differential brain activity associated with virtual navigation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2768-2778

  Halko, Mark A ^a   Connors, Erin C ^b   Sánchez, Jaime ^c   Merabet, Lotfi B ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Early blind; Navigation; Path integration; Posterior parietal cortex; Temporal parietal junction; Virtual environments; Way finding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REST; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REST; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899062641     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22365     Document Type: Article

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