Anatomical and functional plasticity in early blind individuals and the mixture of experts architecture

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Bock, Andrew S ^a   Fine, Ione ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical connectivity; Anophthalmia; Blind; DTI; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Plasticity; Review

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MIXTURE OF EXPERTS OF MODULAR ARCHITECTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

EID: 84933677690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00971     Document Type: Review

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