MEG reveals a fast pathway from somatosensory cortex to occipital areas via posterior parietal cortex in a blind subject

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Ioannides, Andreas A ^a   Liu, Lichan ^a   Poghosyan, Vahe ^a   Saridis, George A ^a   Gjedde, Albert ^a   Ptito, Maurice ^b,c   Kupers, Ron ^b,c  

^a AAI SCIENTIFIC CULTURAL SERVICES LTD   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Cortico cortical connections; Cross modal plasticity; Cross modal perception; Functional connectivity; MEG tomography; Time delayed mutual information

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL SULCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAGNETIC FIELD TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PROBABILITY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84933676161     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00429     Document Type: Article

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