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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 53-63Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.025
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Cross-modal plasticity; Functional neuroimaging; Congenital blindness; Cortical reorganization; Visual deprivation
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- Brussels Institute for Research and Innovation (Belgium)
- National Science Foundation of the USA [PIRE-OISE-0730255]
- National Institutes of Health [R01EY018923-01]
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Medicale (FRSM), Belgium [3.4502.08]
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The neural Darwinism theory predicts that when one sensory modality is lacking, as in congenital blindness, the target structures are taken over by the afferent inputs from other senses that will promote and control their functional maturation (Edelman, 1993). This view receives support from both cross-modal plasticity experiments in animal models and functional imaging studies in man, which are presented here. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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