Recent studies combining psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments in behaving
monkeys have provided new insights into how several cortical areas integrate efforts to …

In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-
detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task …

Functional imaging studies of people who were blind from an early age have revealed that
their primary visual cortex can be activated by Braille reading and other tactile discrimination …

The visual cortex may be more modifiable than previously considered. Using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in ten congenitally blind human participants, we found …

The primary sense modalities (vision, touch and so on) are generally thought of as distinct.
However, visual imagery is implicated in the normal tactile perception of some object …

A key issue in developmental neuroscience is the role of activity-dependent mechanisms in
the epigenetic induction of functional organization in visual cortex. Ocular blindness and …

Research in multisensory processes has exploded over the last decade. Tremendous
advances have been made in a variety of fields from single-unit neural recordings and …

Orienting is the gateway to attention, the first step in processing stimulus information. This
volume examines these initial stages of information intake, focusing on the sensory and …

Cross‐modal plasticity in blind subjects contributes to sensory compensation when vision is
lost early in life, but it is not known if it does so when visual loss occurs at an older age. We …

Background The loss of vision has been associated with enhanced performance in non-
visual tasks such as tactile discrimination and sound localization. Current evidence suggests …