Paradoxical effects of sensory loss

The Paradoxical Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 14-39

  Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a   Obretenova, Souzana ^a   Merabet, Lotfi B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511978098.004     Document Type: Chapter

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