Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex

Cardin, Velia, Orfanidou, Eleni, Rönnberg, Jerker, Capek, Cheryl M., Rudner, Mary and Woll, Bencie (2013) Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex. Nature Communications, 4. p. 1473. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Disentangling the effects of sensory and cognitive factors on neural reorganization is fundamental for establishing the relationship between plasticity and functional specialization. Auditory deprivation in humans provides a unique insight into this problem, because the origin of the anatomical and functional changes observed in deaf individuals is not only sensory, but also cognitive, owing to the implementation of visual communication strategies such as sign language and speechreading. Here, we describe a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of individuals with different auditory deprivation and sign language experience. We find that sensory and cognitive experience cause plasticity in anatomically and functionally distinguishable substrates. This suggests that after plastic reorganization, cortical regions adapt to process a different type of input signal, but preserve the nature of the computation they perform, both at a sensory and cognitive level.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2016 13:00
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 07:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61340
DOI:	10.1038/ncomms2463

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