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Cortical plasticity and preserved function in early blindness
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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 senses that will promote and control their functional maturation (Edelman, 1993). This view receives support from both cross-modal plasticity experiments in animal models and functional imaging studies in man, which are presented here.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Renier, L., De Volder, A. G., & Rauschecker, J. P.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Georgetown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Renier, Laurent
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-04
- Volume
- 41
- Pages
- 53-63
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3818399
- OpenAlex
- W2061716458
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 164
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 16
- FWCI
- 1.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- the National Science Foundation of the USA (PIRE-OISE-0730255)
- the National Institutes of Health (R01EY018923-01)
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Médicale (3.4502.08)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- cortical plasticity, early blindness, congenital blindness, cross-modal plasticity, neural Darwinism, sensory deprivation, functional maturation, visual cortex
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Blindness, Cerebral Cortex, Humans, Neuronal Plasticity, Perception
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