Abstract Language impairment, or aphasia, is a disabling symptom that affects at least one
third of individuals after stroke. Some affected individuals will spontaneously recover partial …

In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-
detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task …

Do blind persons develop capacities of their remaining senses that exceed those of sighted
individuals? Besides anecdotal suggestions, two views based on experimental studies have …

Historically, perception has been viewed as a modular function, with the different sensory
modalities operating independently of each other. Recent behavioral and brain imaging …

Recent studies combining psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments in behaving
monkeys have provided new insights into how several cortical areas integrate efforts to …

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover how cognitive functions are implemented in
neural circuits. Studies of plasticity in blindness suggest that this mind–brain mapping is …

THE present study focuses on influences of long-term experience on auditory processing,
providing the first evidence for pre-attentively superior auditory processing in musicians …

An unresolved issue in cortical development concerns the relative contributions of intrinsic
and extrinsic factors to the functional specification of different cortical areas,,,. Ferrets in …

Blind individuals manifest remarkable abilities in navigating through space despite their lack
of vision. They have previously been shown to perform normally or even supra-normally in …

The primary visual cortex (V1) in congenitally blind humans has been shown to be involved
in tactile discrimination tasks, indicating that there is a shift in function of this area of cortex …