Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness.

ABSTRACT: The primary visual cortex (V1) in blindness is engaged in a wide spectrum of tasks and sensory modalities, including audition, touch, language, and memory. This widespread involvement raises questions regarding the constancy of its role and whether it might exhibit flexibility in its function over time, connecting to diverse network functions specific to task demands. This would suggest that reorganized V1 assumes a role like multiple-demand system regions. Alternatively, varying patterns of plasticity in blind V1 may be attributed to individual factors, with different blind individuals recruiting V1 preferentially for different functions. In support of this, we recently showed that V1 functional connectivity (FC) varies greatly across blind individuals. But do these represent stable indiv

SUBMITTER: Amaral L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11317565 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature