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Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults

Humans are thought to have evolved brain regions in the left frontal and temporal cortex that are uniquely capable of language processing. However, congenitally blind individuals also activate the visual cortex in some verbal tasks. We provide evidence that this visual cortex activity in fact reflec...

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Main Authors: Bedny, Marina, Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, Dodell-Feder, David, Fedorenko, Evelina, Saxe, Rebecca
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060248/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21368161
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014818108
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