Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10465060 | Neuropsychologia | 2012 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
⺠We studied voice identity processing in congenitally blind individuals and sighted controls. ⺠Congenitally blind individuals showed superior voice learning than matched sighted controls. ⺠These behavioral benefits were accompanied by early ERP (N1) priming effects in the blind. ⺠Moreover, this and later ERP effects had a posteriorly shifted topography in blind individuals. ⺠We conclude that the neural processing of voices is both more efficient and reorganized following sensory deprivation.
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Authors
Julia Föcker, Anna Best, Cordula Hölig, Brigitte Röder,