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Hemispheric asymmetries in subcortical visual and auditory relay structures in ...
Amaral, L.; Ganho-Ávila, A.; Osório, A.; Soares, M. J.; He, D.; Chen, Q. Z.; Mahon, B. Z.; Gonçalves, O. F.; Sampaio, A.; Fang, F.; Bi, Y.; Almeida, J.Neuroplasticity - the capacity of the brain to change as a response to internal and external pressures - has been studied from a number of different perspectives. Perhaps one of the most powerful models is the study of populations that have been congenitally deprived of a sense. It has been shown that the right Auditory Cortex (AC) of congenitally deaf humans is neuroplastically modified in order to represent v...
Date: 2016
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Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra