Auditory compensation for early blindness in cat cerebral cortex
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Summary
It appears that a cortical region that normally represents visual activity can become driven by auditory or somatosensory activity as a result of visual deprivation, implying that early blindness causes compensatory increases in the amount of auditory cortical representation, possibly by an expansion of nonvisual areas into previously visual territory.
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- article
- Published
- 1993-10-01
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 50
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- Open access
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Keywords
Somatosensory system, Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Psychology, Receptive field
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