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 …

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 …

Humans are thought to have evolved brain regions in the left frontal and temporal cortex that
are uniquely capable of language processing. However, congenitally blind individuals also …

The visual word form area (VWFA) is a ventral stream visual area that develops expertise for
visual reading [1–3]. It is activated across writing systems and scripts [4, 5] and encodes …

Incoming signals from different sensory modalities are initially processed in separate brain
regions. But because these different signals can arise from common events or objects in the …

Spatial navigation in the absence of vision has been investigated from a variety of
perspectives and disciplines. These different approaches have progressed our …

Contrasting the impact of congenital versus late-onset acquired blindness provides a unique
model to probe how experience at different developmental periods shapes the functional …

Background A small number of blind people are adept at echolocating silent objects simply
by producing mouth clicks and listening to the returning echoes. Yet the neural architecture …

While multisensory integration is thought to occur in higher hierarchical cortical areas, recent
studies in man and monkey have revealed plurisensory modulations of activity in areas …

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 …