Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying plastic changes and rehabilitation following sensory loss in blindness and deafness

The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 395-422

  Striem Amit, Ella ^a   Bubic, Andreja ^a   Amedi, Amir ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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