Compensatory plasticity: Time matters

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Lazzouni, Latifa ^a   Lepore, Franco ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindfolding; Compensatory plasticity; Cortico cortical pathways; Onset time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; COMPENSATORY PLASTICITY; CONNECTOME; CORTICO CORTICAL PATHWAY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EARLY BLINDNESS; FUNCTIONAL REORGANIZATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LATE BLINDNESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ONSET AGE; RECOGNITION; SMELLING AND TASTE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84902601460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00340     Document Type: Article

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