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Author Rieser, John J

Title Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception
Published Hoboken : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (446 pages)
Contents Front cover; Contents; Color Plate Figures; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Theory and Issues in Research on Blindness and Brain Plasticity; Chapter 2. History of Research on Blindness and Brain Plasticity; PART II: EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT OF VISUAL CORTEX FOR NONVISUAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT; Chapter 3. The Plastic Human Brain in Blind Individuals: The Cause of Disability and the Opportunity for Rehabilitation; Chapter 4. Plasticity of Cortical Maps in Visual Deprivation; Chapter 5. Brain Plasticity and Multisensory Experience in Early Blind Individuals
Chapter 6. Braille, Plasticity, and the MindChapter 7. Visual Cortical Involvement During Tactile Perception in Blind and Sighted Individuals; Chapter 8. The Behavioral and Neurophysiological Effects of Sensory Deprivation; PART III: PERCEPTION, SENSORY SUBSTITUTION, AND COGNITIVE STRATEGIES; Chapter 9. Functional Equivalence of Spatial Representations From Vision, Touch, and Hearing: Relevance for Sensory Substitution; Chapte
Summary Features chapters from cognitive and developmental psychologists, neurologists and neuroscientists, and rehabilitation specialists and educators. This book attempts to bring together the disparate threads of research
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ISBN 9781410617477
1410617475