A number-form area in the blind

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Abboud, Sami ^a   Maidenbaum, Shachar ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,c,d,e   Amedi, Amir ^a,f,g  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^c Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAILLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CROWDING (VISION); ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; LANGUAGE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923171575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7026     Document Type: Article

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