Visual Deprivation Alters Functional Connectivity of Neural Networks for Voice Recognition: A Resting-State fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: Humans recognize one another by identifying their voices and faces. For sighted people, the integration of voice and face signals in corresponding brain networks plays an important role in facilitating the process. However, individuals with vision loss primarily resort to voice cues to recognize a person's identity. It remains unclear how the neural systems for voice recognition reorganize in the blind. In the present study, we collected behavioral and resting-state fMRI data from 20 early blind (5 females; mean age = 22.6 years) and 22 sighted control (7 females; mean age = 23.7 years) individuals. We aimed to investigate the alterations in the resting-state functional connectivity (FC) among the voice- and face-sensitive areas in blind subjects in comparison with controls. We found that

SUBMITTER: Pang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10136943 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature