Brain Plasticity in Blind Subjects Centralizes Beyond the Modal Cortices
Ortiz-Terán L, Ortiz T, Perez D, Aragón J, Diez I, Pascual-Leone A, Sepulcre J. Brain Plasticity in Blind Subjects Centralizes Beyond the Modal Cortices. Frontiers In Systems Neuroscience 2016, 10: 61. PMID: 27458350, PMCID: PMC4937754, DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00061.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSuperior parietal cortexLateral occipital cortexLate-onset blindnessTemporoparietal junctionVentral premotorNeuroplastic changesGroup of sighted controlsDistributed neural systemVisual processing regionsBlind individualsFunctional connectivity analysisMultimodal integration regionsCross-modal neuroplasticityFunctional network alterationsInvestigate functional reorganizationHeteromodal cortexNeuroimaging investigationsParietal cortexBrain networksCross-modal plasticityAssociation cortexOccipital cortexConnectivity analysisNeuroplastic alterationsProcessing regions