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Age-dependent plasticity in the superior temporal sulcus in deaf humans: a functional MRI study

BACKGROUND: Sign-language comprehension activates the auditory cortex in deaf subjects. It is not known whether this functional plasticity in the temporal cortex is age dependent. We conducted functional magnetic-resonance imaging in six deaf signers who lost their hearing before the age of 2 years,...

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Autores principales: Sadato, Norihiro, Yamada, Hiroki, Okada, Tomohisa, Yoshida, Masaki, Hasegawa, Takehiro, Matsuki, Ken-Ichi, Yonekura, Yoshiharu, Itoh, Harumi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-5-56