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Title: Decoding Visual Location From Neural Patterns in the Auditory Cortex of the Congenitally Deaf
Authors: Almeida, Jorge 
He, Dongjun 
Chen, Quanjing 
Mahon, Bradford Z. 
Zhang, Fan 
Gonçalves, Óscar F. 
Fang, Fang 
Bi, Yanchao 
Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory Cortex; Brain Mapping; Deafness; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Visual Cortex; Young Adult; Neuronal Plasticity; Visual Fields
Issue Date: 2015
Serial title, monograph or event: Psychological Science
Volume: 26
Issue: 11
Abstract: Sensory cortices of individuals who are congenitally deprived of a sense can exhibit considerable plasticity and be recruited to process information from the senses that remain intact. Here, we explored whether the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf individuals represents visual field location of a stimulus-a dimension that is represented in early visual areas. We used functional MRI to measure neural activity in auditory and visual cortices of congenitally deaf and hearing humans while they observed stimuli typically used for mapping visual field preferences in visual cortex. We found that the location of a visual stimulus can be successfully decoded from the patterns of neural activity in auditory cortex of congenitally deaf but not hearing individuals. This is particularly true for locations within the horizontal plane and within peripheral vision. These data show that the representations stored within neuroplastically changed auditory cortex can align with dimensions that are typically represented in visual cortex.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/47351
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615598970
Rights: openAccess
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