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  1. Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain, Ave. Hippocrate, 54, UCL-54.46, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    C. Poirier, O. Collignon & A. De Volder

  2. Neurofunctional Imaging Nuclear Medicine, MRI, UMR-7004 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    C. Scheiber

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Poirier, C., Collignon, O., Scheiber, C. et al. Auditory motion processing in early blind subjects. Cogn Process 5, 254–256 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-004-0031-1

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