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Cortical plasticity and preserved function in early blindness

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Renier, Laurent, De Volder, Anne G., Rauschecker, Josef P.·2014·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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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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Authors: Renier, L., De Volder, A. G., & Rauschecker, J. P.
Affiliations: UCLouvain (BE)
Georgetown University (US)
Corresponding author: Renier, Laurent
ORCID: Rauschecker, Josef P.
Venue: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2014-04
Volume: 41
Pages: 53-63
ISSN: 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.025
PMC: PMC3818399
OpenAlex: W2061716458
Cited by: 144
References: 164
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FWCI: 1.28
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Locations: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
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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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