Nonvisual sports and art: Fertile substrates for the growth of knowledge about brain plasticity in people who are blind or have low vision

Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 283-311

  Ponchillia, Paul E ^a  

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