Brain development: critical periods for cross-sensory plasticity

Curr Biol. 2010 Nov 9;20(21):R934-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.09.052.

Abstract

Recent work has shown that visual deprivation of humans during a critical period leads to motion area MT+ responding to auditory motion. This cross-sensory plasticity, an important form of brain reorganization, may be mediated by top-down brain circuits from pre-frontal cortex.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Blindness / physiopathology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Motion Perception*
  • Visual Cortex / growth & development
  • Visual Cortex / physiology*
  • Visual Cortex / physiopathology