Cortical Reorganization: Reallocated Responses without Rewiring

Cortical Reorganization: Reallocated Responses without Rewiring

Is the brain able to reorganise following loss of sensory input? New work on individuals with sight loss shows that, while brain areas normally allocated to vision respond to other sensory stimuli, those responses are unlikely to mean the brain has rewired.

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Veröffentlicht in:Current biology 2021-01, Vol.31 (2), p.R76-R78
Hauptverfasser: Morland, Antony B, Brown, Holly D H, Baseler, Heidi A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Is the brain able to reorganise following loss of sensory input? New work on individuals with sight loss shows that, while brain areas normally allocated to vision respond to other sensory stimuli, those responses are unlikely to mean the brain has rewired.
ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.003