Brain development: critical periods for cross-sensory plasticity.
Recent work has shown that visual deprivation of humans during a critical period leads to motion area MT+ responding to auditory motion. This cross-sensory plasticity, an important form of brain reorganization, may be mediated by top-down brain circuits from pre-frontal cortex.
Department of Physiological Sciences, Università di Pisa, Via San Zeno 31, 56123 Pisa, Italy. concetta@in.cnr.it
Maria Concetta
MC
Morrone
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009039:Motion Perception; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology