Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1679-1695

  Striem Amit, Ella ^a,b   Ovadia Caro, Smadar ^c,d   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b,e   Margulies, Daniel S ^c,d   Villringer, Arno ^c,d   Amedi, Amir ^a,f,g  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Blindness; Development; Plasticity; Vision

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937863647     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv083     Document Type: Article

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