Standard accounts of mental health are based on a “deficit view” solely focusing on
cognitive impairments associated with psychiatric conditions. Based on the principle of …

Even though vision is considered the best suited sensory modality to acquire spatial
information, blind individuals can form spatial representations to navigate and orient …

Until recently, a commonly held view was that blindness resulted in enhanced auditory
abilities, underpinned by the beneficial effects of cross-modal neuroplasticity. This viewpoint …

Neuroplasticity is a complex process that is heightened during time-sensitive periods of pre-
and postnatal brain development. It continues, albeit to a lesser extent, throughout …

Blindness studies are important models for the comprehension of human brain development
and reorganization, after visual deprivation early in life. To investigate the global and local …

Background: Noise sensitivity results from a series of variables and processes, and it can be
used to predict the annoyance caused by noise and health-related outcomes. This study …

Long-term unilateral hearing loss could reorganize the functional network association
between the bilateral auditory cortices, while alterations of other functional networks need to …

Recent functional MRI (fMRI) studies have highlighted differences in responses to natural
sounds along the rostral-caudal axis of the human superior temporal gyrus. However, due to …

Studies of deaf individuals, especially deaf children, suggest an association between
language and cognition. Deafness also causes brain reorganisation in the auditory cortex …

considerations on the downsides of cognitive enhancement14, and it can be viewed as the
flipside of these considerations. One of the two principles that our previous article was based …