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

The ability to use cues from multiple senses in concert is a fundamental aspect of brain
function. It maximizes the brain's use of the information available to it at any given moment …

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 …

Despite reports of improved auditory discrimination capabilities in blind humans,, and
visually deprived animals, there is no general agreement as to the nature or pervasiveness …

D 0 BLIND PEOPLE develop capacities of their remaining senses that exceed those of
sighted individuals? This has been a question of debate for a long time'. Anecdotal evidence …

We have investigated the responses of neurones in the guinea-pig superior colliculus to
combinations of visual and auditory stimuli. When these stimuli were presented separately …

For centuries, anecdotal evidence such as the perfect pitch of the blind piano tuner or blind
musician has supported the notion that individuals who have lost their sight early in life have …

The objective of the present study was to test if and to what extent phasic and tonic event-
related potentials of the human EEG may reflect phenomena of cortical plasticity. In …

The “neural Darwinism” theory predicts that when one sensory modality is lacking, as in
congenital blindness, the target structures are taken over by the afferent inputs from other …

After the first review by Barlow (17), several other reviews during the last decade have dealt
extensively with the plasticity of the mammalian visual system and the effects of experience …