A Lack of Experience-Dependent Plasticity After More Than a Decade of Recovered Sight

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 393-401

  Huber, Elizabeth ^a   Webster, Jason M ^a   Brewer, Alyssa A ^b   MacLeod, Donald I A ^c   Wandell, Brian A ^d   Boynton, Geoffrey M ^a   Wade, Alex R ^e   Fine, Ione ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

face perception; neuroimaging; object recognition; temporal lobe; vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCULAR VISION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84927608097     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614563957     Document Type: Article

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