How visual is the visual cortex? Comparing connectional and functional fingerprints between congenitally blind and sighted individuals

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 12545-12559

  Wang, Xiaoying ^a   Peelen, Marius V ^b   Han, Zaizhu ^a   He, Chenxi ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b,c   Bi, Yanchao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Connectional fingerprints; Functional fingerprints; Resting state functional connectivity; Ventral visual cortex; Visual experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONNECTOME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84941242489     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3914-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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