Much of the visual cortex is organized into visual field maps: nearby neurons have receptive
fields at nearby locations in the image. Mammalian species generally have multiple visual …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Human parietal cortex is implicated in a wide variety of sensory and cognitive functions, yet
its precise organization remains unclear. Visual field maps provide a potential structural …

The bilateral anatomical organization of the vestibular system provides three functional
advantages: optimal differentiation of head motion and orientation, sensory substitution of a …

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 …

Vision is generally considered the dominant sensory modality; self-contained and
independent of other senses. In this article, we will present recent results that contradict this …

This review summarizes our current knowledge of multisensory vestibular structures and
their functions in humans. Most of it derives from brain activation studies with PET and fMRI …

Tactile spatial acuity is enhanced in blindness, according to several studies, but the cause of
this enhancement has been controversial. Two competing hypotheses are the tactile …

In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding
intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who …