Are supramodality and cross-modal plasticity the yin and yang of brain development? From blindness to rehabilitation.
Research in blind individuals has primarily focused for a long time on the brain plastic reorganization that occurs in early visual areas. Only more recently, scientists have developed innovative strategies to understand to what extent vision is truly a mandatory prerequisite for the brain’s fine mo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2016.00089/full |