Article Information
- Received November 3, 2014
- Revision received February 17, 2015
- Accepted March 4, 2015
- First published April 15, 2015.
- Version of record published April 15, 2015.
Author Information
Author contributions
Author contributions: P.V. and R.J.Z. designed research; P.V. and V.T. performed research; P.V., V.T., and R.J.Z. analyzed data; P.V. and R.J.Z. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received November 3, 2014.
- Revision received February 17, 2015.
- Accepted March 4, 2015.
This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Fund for Innovation, and the Fonds Québécois de Recherche Nature et Technologies/Société et Culture via its funding of the Centre for Research in Brain, Language and Music. P.V. was supported by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is administered by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. We thank all of the individuals who volunteered to participate in this study as well as the Institut Nazareh et Louis-Braille for its assistance in recruiting blind participants. We also thank Marc Schönwiesner and Régis Trapeau for their assistance in programming the tasks and setting up the equipment.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Patrice Voss, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 Rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. patrice.voss{at}mcgill.ca
