Early visual experience and the recognition of basic facial expressions: Involvement of the middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri during haptic identification by the early blind

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Kitada, Ryo ^a   Okamoto, Yuko ^a   Sasaki, Akihiro T ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^b   Miyahara, Motohide ^c   Lederman, Susan J ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blind; Facial expression; fMRI; Haptics; Psychophysics; Supramodal; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA GYRATE ATROPHY; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933673123     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00007     Document Type: Article

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