title: [Cortical plasticity in blind individual].
abstract: The cognitive mechanisms and functional brain imaging research on blind individuals provide special information for exploring the plasticity of the developing human brain. This paper focuses on five aspects of recent progress in this field: (1) the behavior compensation of the blind; (2) the influence of early visual deprivation and later visual deprivation on cross-modal reorganization; (3) the relationship between the complexity of task requirement and cross-modal reorganization; (4) the relationship between the sensitive periods of the visual system and the time course of cross-modal reorganization; (5) the neural mechanisms of cross-modal reorganization. These findings contribute greatly to the theoretical basis of the rehabilitation of individuals with perceptual deficits.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China.
authors.forename: Shu-zhen
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Si-quan
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D014795:Visual Pathways