Rapid and reversible recruitment of early visual cortex for touch.

Rapid and reversible recruitment of early visual cortex for touch.

The loss of vision has been associated with enhanced performance in non-visual tasks such as tactile discrimination and sound localization. Current evidence suggests that these functional gains are linked to the recruitment of the occipital visual cortex for non-visual processing, but the neurophysi...

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Main Authors: Lotfi B Merabet, Roy Hamilton, Gottfried Schlaug, Jascha D Swisher, Elaine T Kiriakopoulos, Naomi B Pitskel, Thomas Kauffman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2516172?pdf=render

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