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Flexibility and Stability in Sensory Processing Revealed Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution.
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- Shape detection beyond the visual field using a visual-to-auditory sensory augmentation device.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Training-induced plasticity enables visualizing sounds with a visual-to-auditory conversion device.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Visually-Driven Maps in Area 3b.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan.Trends in neurosciences · 2016Review
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- Perception of Graphical Virtual Environments by Blind Users via Sensory Substitution.PloS one · 2016Article
- Sensorimotor strategies for recognizing geometrical shapes: a comparative study with different sensory substitution devices.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Neural pathways for visual speech perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2014Review
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Abstract
The classical view of sensory processing involves independent processing in sensory cortices and multisensory integration in associative areas. This hierarchical structure has been challenged by evidence of multisensory responses in sensory areas, and dynamic weighting of sensory inputs in associative areas, thus far reported independently. Here, we used a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution algorithm (SSA) to manipulate the information conveyed by sensory inputs while keeping the stimuli intact. During scan sessions before and after SSA learning, subjects were presented with visual images and auditory soundscapes. The findings reveal 2 dynamic processes. First, crossmodal attenuation of sensory cortices changed direction after SSA learning from visual attenuations of the auditory cortex to auditory attenuations of the visual cortex. Secondly, associative areas changed their sensory response profile from strongest response for visual to that for auditory. The interaction between these phenomena may play an important role in multisensory processing. Consistent features were also found in the sensory dominance in sensory areas and audiovisual convergence in associative area Middle Temporal Gyrus. These 2 factors allow for both stability and a fast, dynamic tuning of the system when required.
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