Practice makes perfect: the neural substrates of tactile discrimination by Mah-Jong experts include the primary visual cortex

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>It has yet to be determined whether visual-tactile cross-modal plasticity due to visual deprivation, particularly in the primary visual cortex (V1), is solely due to visual deprivation or if it is a result of long-term tactile traini...

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Main Authors: Honda Manabu, Okada Tomohisa, Saito Daisuke N, Yonekura Yoshiharu, Sadato Norihiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-12-01
Series:BMC Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/7/79