ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Body map proto-organization in newborn macaques.
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- Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Teneurin-3 and latrophilin-2 are required for somatotopic map formation and somatosensory topognosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Brainwide mesoscale functional networks revealed by focal infrared neural stimulation of the amygdala.National science review · 2025Article
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- Against cortical reorganisation.eLife · 2023Article
- A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Visual category representations in the infant brain.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
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- Connectivity of the Cingulate Sulcus Visual Area (CSv) in Macaque Monkeys.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Functional Reorganization After Four-Week Brain-Computer Interface-Controlled Supernumerary Robotic Finger Training: A Pilot Study of Longitudinal Resting-State fMRI.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Topographic sensory maps are a prominent feature of the adult primate brain. Here, we asked whether topographic representations of the body are present at birth. Using functional MRI (fMRI), we find that the newborn somatomotor system, spanning frontoparietal cortex and subcortex, comprises multiple topographic representations of the body. The organization of these large-scale body maps was indistinguishable from those in older monkeys. Finer-scale differentiation of individual fingers increased over the first 2 y, suggesting that topographic representations are refined during early development. Last, we found that somatomotor representations were unchanged in 2 visually impaired monkeys who relied on touch for interacting with their environment, demonstrating that massive shifts in early sensory experience in an otherwise anatomically intact brain are insufficient for driving cross-modal plasticity. We propose that a topographic scaffolding is present at birth that both directs and constrains experience-driven modifications throughout somatosensory and motor systems.
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