Functional Cerebral Reorganization for Auditory Spatial Processing and Auditory Substitution of Vision in Early Blind Subjects

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 457 - 465
• Main Authors: Collignon, Olivier, Lassonde, Maryse, Lepore, Franco, Bastien, Danielle, Veraart, Claude
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.02.2007; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adult; Auditory Cortex - physiopathology; Auditory Perception; blindness; Blindness - physiopathology; Blindness - rehabilitation; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neuronal Plasticity; occipital cortex; plasticity; sensory substitution; Sound Localization; Space Perception; transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual Cortex - physiopathology; plasticity; occipital cortex; transcranial magnetic stimulation; blindness; sensory substitution

Early blind (EB) individuals can recognize bidimensional shapes using a prosthesis substituting vision with audition (PSVA) and activate right dorsal extrastriate visual cortex during the execution of this task. The present study used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to further ex...