"Visual" Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children

Plasticity in the visual cortex of blind individuals provides a rare window into the mechanisms of cortical specialization. In the absence of visual input, occipital (“visual”) brain regions respond to sound and spoken language. Here, we examined the time course and developmental mechanism of this p...

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Main Authors: Bedny, Marina, Richardson, Hilary, Saxe, Rebecca R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Neuroscience 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101095
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-805X