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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Main Authors: Luca Cecchetti, Ron Kupers, Maurice Ptito, Pietro Pietrini, Emiliano Ricciardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Subjects:
MRI
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2016.00089/full