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Recruitment of Occipital Cortex during Sensory Substitution Training Linked to Subjective Experience of Seeing in People with Blindness

Over three months of intensive training with a tactile stimulation device, 18 blind and 10 blindfolded seeing subjects improved in their ability to identify geometric figures by touch. Seven blind subjects spontaneously reported ‘visual qualia’, the subjective sensation of seeing flashes of light co...

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Autores principales: Ortiz, Tomás, Poch, Joaquín, Santos, Juan M., Requena, Carmen, Martínez, Ana M., Ortiz-Terán, Laura, Turrero, Agustín, Barcia, Juan, Nogales, Ramón, Calvo, Agustín, Martínez, José M., Córdoba, José L., Pascual-Leone, Alvaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3154329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21853098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023264