Cortical plasticity for visuospatial processing and object recognition in deaf and hearing signers

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 661 - 672
• Main Authors: Weisberg, Jill, Koo, Daniel S., Crain, Kelly L., Eden, Guinevere F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.03.2012; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Brain; Brain - physiology; Deaf; Deafness; Deafness - physiopathology; Dorsal stream; Face; Face processing; Female; Humans; Male; Neuronal Plasticity; Plasticity; Reading; Sign Language; Spatial processing; Ventral stream; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; Spatial processing; Sign language; Deaf; Plasticity; Dorsal stream; Face processing; Ventral stream

Experience-dependent plasticity in deaf participants has been shown in a variety of studies focused on either the dorsal or ventral aspects of the visual system, but both systems have never been investigated in concert. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated functional p...