ArticleNeural plasticity2016
The Right Hemisphere Planum Temporale Supports Enhanced Visual Motion Detection Ability in Deaf People: Evidence from Cortical Thickness.
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- Hearing loss impacts gray and white matter across the lifespan: Systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.NeuroImage · 2021Pooled it
- The Cross-Modal Effects of Sensory Deprivation on Spatial and Temporal Processes in Vision and Audition: A Systematic Review on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research since 2000.Neural plasticity · 2019Pooled it
- Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Cortical thickness differences between hearing and perinatally deaf cats using ultra-high field MRI.Neuroimage. Reports · 2024Article
- On the interplay between speech perception and production: insights from research and theories.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Sensory experience modulates the reorganization of auditory regions for executive processing.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- The Effects of Cortical Reorganization and Applications of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Deaf People and Cochlear Implant Users.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention Impairment Induced by Long-Term Exposure to Noise in the Absence of Threshold Shifts.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The Extent of Task Specificity for Visual and Tactile Sequences in the Auditory Cortex of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Direct Structural Connections between Auditory and Visual Motion-Selective Regions in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of deafness and sign language experience on the human brain: voxel-based and surface-based morphometry.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2021Article
- Changes of the Brain Causal Connectivity Networks in Patients With Long-Term Bilateral Hearing Loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Structural neuroimaging of the altered brain stemming from pediatric and adolescent hearing loss-Scientific and clinical challenges.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine · 2020Review
- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Deaf and Hearing During Sustained Peripheral Selective Attention.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2020Article
- The Influence of Aging, Hearing, and Tinnitus on the Morphology of Cortical Gray Matter, Amygdala, and Hippocampus.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Article
- Enhancement of visual biological motion recognition in early-deaf adults: Functional and behavioral correlates.PloS one · 2020Article
- Directional Visual Motion Is Represented in the Auditory and Association Cortices of Early Deaf Individuals.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Somatosensory Cross-Modal Reorganization in Adults With Age-Related, Early-Stage Hearing Loss.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Structural reorganization of the early visual cortex following Braille training in sighted adults.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Cross-modal plasticity in developmental and age-related hearing loss: Clinical implications.Hearing research · 2017Review
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Abstract
After sensory loss, the deprived cortex can reorganize to process information from the remaining modalities, a phenomenon known as cross-modal reorganization. In blind people this cross-modal processing supports compensatory behavioural enhancements in the nondeprived modalities. Deaf people also show some compensatory visual enhancements, but a direct relationship between these abilities and cross-modally reorganized auditory cortex has only been established in an animal model, the congenitally deaf cat, and not in humans. Using T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, we measured cortical thickness in the planum temporale, Heschl's gyrus and sulcus, the middle temporal area MT+, and the calcarine sulcus, in early-deaf persons. We tested for a correlation between this measure and visual motion detection thresholds, a visual function where deaf people show enhancements as compared to hearing. We found that the cortical thickness of a region in the right hemisphere planum temporale, typically an auditory region, was greater in deaf individuals with better visual motion detection thresholds. This same region has previously been implicated in functional imaging studies as important for functional reorganization. The structure-behaviour correlation observed here demonstrates this area's involvement in compensatory vision and indicates an anatomical correlate, increased cortical thickness, of cross-modal plasticity.
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