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 …

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 …

Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality? There is
a seemingly easy answer to this question: It is because vision is our most important and …

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 …

The visual cortex may be more modifiable than previously considered. Using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in ten congenitally blind human participants, we found …

A region in human lateral occipital cortex (the'extrastriate body area'or EBA) has been
implicated in the perception of body parts. Here we report functional magnetic resonance …

The field of neurobionics offers hope to patients with sensory and motor impairment.
Blindness is a common cause of major sensory loss, with an estimated 39 million people …

Functional imaging studies in blind subjects have shown tactile activation of cortical areas
that normally subserve vision, but whether blind people have enhanced tactile acuity has …

Using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm, congenitally fully blind adults were
taught to read and recognize complex images using" soundscapes"—sounds …

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 …