The plastic human brain cortex

A Pascual-Leone, A Amedi, F Fregni… - Annu. Rev …, 2005‏ - annualreviews.org
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to
enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to …

Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change

LB Merabet, A Pascual-Leone - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010‏ - nature.com
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 …

[کتاب][B] Rethinking innateness: A connectionist perspective on development

JL Elman - 1996‏ - books.google.com
Rethinking Innateness asks the question," What does it really mean to say that a behavior is
innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels …

Cross-modal plasticity: where and how?

D Bavelier, HJ Neville - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002‏ - nature.com
Animal studies have shown that sensory deprivation in one modality can have striking
effects on the development of the remaining modalities. Although recent studies of deaf and …

Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects

N Sadato, A Pascual-Leone, J Grafman, V Ibañez… - Nature, 1996‏ - nature.com
PRIMARY visual cortex receives visual input from the eyes through the lateral geniculate
nuclei, but is not known to receive input from other sensory modalities1. Its level of activity …

Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans

LG Cohen, P Celnik, A Pascual-Leone, B Corwell… - Nature, 1997‏ - nature.com
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 …

Representation of space in blind persons: vision as a spatial sense?

C Thinus-Blanc, F Gaunet - Psychological bulletin, 1997‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Some researchers of studies of the incidence of early visual experience on spatial abilities
have demonstrated profound spatial deficits in early blind participants, whereas others have …

Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans

B Röder, W Teder-SaÈlejaÈrvi, A Sterr, F RoÈsler… - Nature, 1999‏ - nature.com
Despite reports of improved auditory discrimination capabilities in blind humans,, and
visually deprived animals, there is no general agreement as to the nature or pervasiveness …

Compensatory plasticity and cross-modal reorganization following early visual deprivation

R Kupers, M Ptito - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014‏ - Elsevier
For human and non-human primates, vision is one of the most privileged sensory channels
used to interact with the environment. The importance of vision is strongly embedded in the …

Flutter discrimination: neural codes, perception, memory and decision making

R Romo, E Salinas - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2003‏ - nature.com
Recent studies combining psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments in behaving
monkeys have provided new insights into how several cortical areas integrate efforts to …