Cortical hierarchy turned on its head

Sighted people devote much their cortex to visual processing, but in the blind, 'visual' areas are recruited for other senses. A paper in this issue now reports that V1 in the blind is also activated by a verbal memory task, without any sensory input.

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Published inNature neuroscience Vol. 6; no. 7; pp. 657 - 658
Main Author Buchel, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.07.2003
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects
Animal Genetics and Genomics
Behavioral Sciences
Biological Techniques
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Blind
Blindness, Cortical - physiopathology
Cerebral Cortex - anatomy & histology
Cerebral Cortex - physiology
Humans
Memory
Neurobiology
Neurons
Neurosciences
news-and-views
Physiological aspects
Verbal ability
Verbal Learning - physiology
Vision, Ocular - physiology
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Summary:Sighted people devote much their cortex to visual processing, but in the blind, 'visual' areas are recruited for other senses. A paper in this issue now reports that V1 in the blind is also activated by a verbal memory task, without any sensory input.
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ISSN:1097-6256
1546-1726
DOI:10.1038/nn0703-657