Drawing Enhances Cross-Modal Memory Plasticity in the Human Brain:A Case Study in a Totally Blind Adult

With functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of a memory-guided drawing task under both visual and blindfolded conditions, we have recently demonstrated that the primary visual cortex (V1) may play a role in implementing the visuo-spatial buffer or the sketchpad idea for working memory. We furt...

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Main Author: Lora T Likova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00044/full