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SUBMITTER: Renier L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3743806 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Renier Laurent L Cuevas Isabel I Grandin Cécile B CB Dricot Laurence L Plaza Paula P Lerens Elodie E Rombaux Philippe P De Volder Anne G AG
PloS one 20130814 8
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in ten early blind humans, we found robust occipital activation during two odor-processing tasks (discrimination or categorization of fruit and flower odors), as well as during control auditory-verbal conditions (discrimination or categorization of fruit and flower names). We also found evidence for reorganization and specialization of the ventral part of the occipital cortex, with dissociation according to stimulus modality: the right fusiform ...[more]