The role of blind humans' visual cortex in auditory change detection

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-131

  Kujala, Teija ^a,b   Palva, Matias J ^a   Salonen, Oili ^a   Alku, Paavo ^c   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b   Järvinen, Antti ^c   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory; Blindness; Crossmodal; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 17044376641     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.12.070     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. P. Alku Glottal wave analysis with pitch synchronous adaptive inverse filtering Speech Commun. 11 1992 109 118
2. D. Bavelier, and H.J. Neville Cross-modal plasticity: where and how? Nat. Rev. 3 2002 443 452
3. L.G. Cohen, P. Celnik, A. Pascual-Leone, B. Corwell, and L. Faiz Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans Nature 389 1997 180 183
4. A. Falchier, S. Clavagnier, P. Barone, and H. Kennedy Anatomical evidence of multimodal integration in primate striate cortex J. Neurosci. 22 2002 5749 5759
5. E.R. Gizewski, T. Gasser, A. de Greiff, A. Bohem, and M. Forsting Cross-modal plasticity for sensory and motor activation patterns in blind subjects NeuroImage 19 2003 968 975
6. C.L. Grady, J.W. Van Meter, J.Ma. Maisog, P. Pietrini, J. Krasuski, and J.P. Rauschecker Attention-related modulation of activity in primary and secondary auditory cortes NeuroReport 8 1997 2511 2516
7. J. Hyvärinen, S. Carlson, and L. Hyvärinen Early visual deprivation alters modality of neuronal responses in area 19 of monkey cortex Neurosci. Lett. 26 1981 239 243
8. T. Kujala, K. Alho, and R. Näätänen Cross-modal reorganization of human cortical functions Trends Neurosci. 23 2000 115 120
9. T. Kujala, M. Huotilainen, J. Sinkkonen, A.I. Ahonen, and K. Alho Visual cortex activation in blind humans during sound discrimination Neurosci. Lett. 183 1995 143 146
10. T. Kujala, A. Lehtokoski, K. Alho, J. Kekoni, and R. Näätä nen Faster reaction times in the blind than sighted during bimodal divided-attention task Acta Psychol. 96 1997 75 82
11. N. Lessard, M. Pare, F. Lepore, and M. Lassonde Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects Nature 395 1998 278 280
12. M. Liotti, K. Ryder, and M. Woldorff Auditory attention in the congenitally blind: where, when and what gets reorganized? NeuroReport 9 1998 1007 1012
13. R. Näätänen, and I. Winkler The concept of auditory stimulus representation in cognitive neuroscience Psychol. Bull. 6 1999 826 859
14. U. Noppeney, K.J. Friston, and K. Price Effects of visual deprivation on the organization of the semantic system Brain 126 2003 1620 1627
15. A. Pascual-Leone, and R. Hamilton The metamodal organization of the brain Prog. Brain Res. 134 2001 427 445
16. J. Rauschecker Cortical map plasticity in animals and humans Prog. Brain Res. 138 2002 73 88
17. J. Rauschecker, and U. Kniepert Auditory localization behaviour in visually deprived cats Eur. J. Neurosci. 6 1996 149 160
18. J. Rauschecker, and M. Korte Auditory compensation for early blindness in cat cerebral cortex J. Neurosci. 13 1993 4538 4548
19. K.S. Rockland, and H. Ojima Multisensory convergence in calcarine visual areas in macaque monkey Int. J. Psychophysiol. 50 2003 19 26
20. B. Röder, O. Stock, S. Bien, and F. Rösler Speech processing activates visual cortex in congenitally blind humans Eur. J. Neurosci. 16 2002 930 936
21. B. Röder, W. Teder-Sälejärvi, A. Sterr, F. Rosler, and S.A. Hillyard Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans Nature 400 1999 162 166
22. N. Sadato, T. Okada, M. Honda, and Y. Yonekura Critical period for cross-modal plasticity in blind humans: a functional MRI study NeuroImage 16 2002 389 400
23. N. Sadato, A. Pascual-Leone, J. Grafman, V. Ibanez, and M.-P. Deiber Activation of the primary visual cortex by braille reading in blind subjects Nature 380 1996 526 528
24. E.R. Strelow, and J.A. Brabyn Locomotion of the blind controlled by natural sound cues Perception 11 1982 635 640
25. H. Tiitinen, P. May, K. Reinikainen, and R. Näätänen Attentive novelty detection in humans is governed by pre-attentive sensory memory Nature 327 1994 90 92
26. R. Weeks, B. Horwitz, A. Aziz-Sultan, B. Tian, and C.M. Wessinger A positron emission tomographic study of auditory localization in the congenitally blind J. Neurosci. 20 2000 2664 2672