Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Neuroplasticity can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to respond to intrinsic or
extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, function and connections. Major advances in …

Fifteen years after its introduction by Anthony Barker, transcranial magnetic stimulation
(TMS) appears to be 'coming of age'in cognitive neuroscience and promises to reshape the …

The primary visual cortex (area 17 or V1) is not thought to receive input from nonvisual
extrastriate cortical areas. However, this has yet to be shown to be the case using sensitive …

There is growing evidence that sensory deprivation is associated with crossmodal
neuroplastic changes in the brain. After visual or auditory deprivation, brain areas that are …

Publisher Summary To extract information derived from one sensory modality and used in
another, shape can be known by touch and then can be identified correctly by sight. The …

Neuronal plasticity allows the central nervous system to learn skills and remember
information, to reorganize neuronal networks in response to environmental stimulation, and …

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

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Functional imaging studies in blind subjects have shown tactile activation of cortical areas
that normally subserve vision, but whether blind people have enhanced tactile acuity has …