Preserved functional specialization for spatial processing in the middle occipital gyrus of the early blind

TL;DR: Recent findings from animal studies as well as from behavioural and functional brain imaging studies in sighted and blind individuals that address questions about how consciousness develops in the absence of vision are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study adopts the literature on voice and examines the importance of task feedback from supervisors in facilitating the emergence of creativity, as an expression of voice behavior, from two types of work stress (challenge-and hindrance-oriented).

TL;DR: The crucial role of the developmental period of visual deprivation in (re)shaping the functional architecture and the connectivity of the occipital cortex is demonstrated.

TL;DR: Although early visual experience is essential for the proper development of visual cortex, Striem-Amit et al. show that the underlying connectivity structure of retinotopic mapping is retained even in congenitally blind individuals.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the ventral stream of projections from the striate cortex to the inferotemporal cortex plays the major role in the perceptual identification of objects, while the dorsal stream projecting from the stripping to the posterior parietal region mediates the required sensorimotor transformations for visually guided actions directed at such objects.

TL;DR: Analysis of Visual Behavior deals with the visual mechanisms of diverse vertebrate species from salamanders and toads to primates and humans and presents a stimulating interaction of the disciplines of anatomy, physiology, and behavioral science.

TL;DR: The challenge the authors face is to learn enough about the mechanisms of plasticity to modulate them to achieve the best behavioral outcome for a given subject.

TL;DR: The notion that neocortical operations are essentially multisensory is examined, which forces us to abandon the notion that the senses ever operate independently during real-world cognition.