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Research Description How plastic is the brain? How dependent are your cognitive skills on your previous experience? To address this issue, we examine the effect of altered experience early in life on the functional organization of the adult brain. For example, we ask whether early deafness leads to changes in vision or whether early exposure to ASL changes the cortical organization for language. We also study how videogame playing modifies visual skills. We determine the nature of the changes by comparing behavioral indices of vision or language processes in populations with different experience, and assess underlying changes in neural substrates with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Plasticity
in the Visual System
Plasticity
in the Language Domain |
