rTMS of the occipital cortex abolishes Braille reading and repetition priming in blind subjects

[en] To study the functional involvement of the visual cortex in Braille reading, we applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over midoccipital (MOC) and primary somatosensory (SI) cortex in blind subjects. After rTMS of MOC, but not SI, subjects made significantly more errors and showed an abolishment of the improvement in reading speed following repetitive presentation of the same word list, suggesting a role of the visual cortex in repetition priming in the blind.

Disciplines :

Neurology

Author, co-author :

Kupers, R.

Pappens, M.

MAERTENS DE NOORDHOUT, Alain ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Neurologie CHR

Schoenen, Jean ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Neuro-anatomie

Ptito, M.

Fumal, Arnaud ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Neurologie CHR

Language :

English

Title :

rTMS of the occipital cortex abolishes Braille reading and repetition priming in blind subjects

Publication date :

27 February 2007

Journal title :

Neurology

ISSN :

0028-3878

eISSN :

1526-632X

Publisher :

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, United States - Pennsylvania

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

691-693

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