Neural correlates of taste perception in congenital blindness

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 227-234

  Gagnon, L ^a,b   Kupers, R ^a,b   Ptito, M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crossmodal plasticity; FMRI; Gustation; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPERCULUM (BRAIN); POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR INSULA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SMELLING; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASTE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VENTRAL INSULA; YOUNG ADULT; BLINDNESS; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84924295940     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.027     Document Type: Article

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