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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by visually impaired individuals, distinguished from other symbolic systems by its use of raised dot patterns arranged in cells to represent letters, numbers, punctuation, and linguistic symbols in a standardized, code-based format.

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195

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Braille System

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Publications

770

Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects

Norihiro Sadato, Álvaro Pascual‐Leone, Jordan Grafman et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.3K citations

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Plasticity of the sensorimotor cortex representation of the reading finger in Braille readers

Álvaro Pascual‐Leone, Fernando Torres · Brain · 1993 · 655 citations

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Tactile Spatial Attention Enhances Gamma-Band Activity in Somatosensory Cortex and Reduces Low-Frequency Activity in Parieto-Occipital Areas

Markus Bauer, Robert Oostenveld, Maarten Peeters et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006 · 486 citations · Full text

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Different activation patterns in the visual cortex of late and congenitally blind subjects

Christian Büchel · Brain · 1998 · 437 citations · Full text

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Tactile Acuity is Enhanced in Blindness

Daniel Goldreich, Ingrid M. Kanics · Journal of Neuroscience · 2003 · 434 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. SM
    Susanna Millar

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 280 citations

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  2. LP
    L. Penny Rosenblum

    University of Arizona, United States

    10 publications · 196 citations

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  3. MA
    Morton A. Heller

    Winston-Salem State University, United States

    8 publications · 190 citations

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  4. HB
    H. Burton

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. NS
    Norihiro Sadato

    National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

    7 publications · 2.2K citations

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Institutions

741

  1. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    13 h-index

    20 publications

    431 citations

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    12 h-index

    35 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    12 h-index

    39 publications

    2.9K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    21 publications

    939 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    14 publications

    638 citations

  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    11 h-index

    58 publications

    3.2K citations

  7. Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego

    Warsaw, Poland

    9 h-index

    26 publications

    1K citations

  8. King Saud University

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    320 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

    JVIB · 97 publications · 2.4K citations

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  2. British Journal of Visual Impairment

    BJVI · 12 publications · 353 citations

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  4. Perception

    8 publications · 249 citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Haptics

    7 publications · 436 citations

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