Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Deep in the occipitotemporal cortex lie two functional regions, the visual word form area
(VWFA) and the number form area (NFA), which are thought to play a special role in letter …

The study of the congenitally blind (CB) represents a unique opportunity to explore
experience-dependant plasticity in a sensory region deprived of its natural inputs since birth …

The occipital cortex (OC) of early-blind humans is activated during various nonvisual
perceptual and cognitive tasks, but little is known about its modular organization. Using …

Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) have come a long way since first developed for visual
rehabilitation. They have produced exciting experimental results, and have furthered our …

The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

Until only a few decades ago, researchers still considered sensory cortices to be fixed or
“hardwired,” with specific cortical regions solely dedicated to the processing of selective …