neurodudes

This review article (NRN Jan 2005) has a nice summary of cross-modal neuroplasticity in humans, mostly dealing with how occipital cortex (primarily visual for normals) takes over tactile and auditory processing duties in blind patients. The authors go on to speculate that these neuroplasticity insights could be applied to neural prothestic users to speed adaptation to their new sensory apparati, like combining tactile/auditory information with the prosthetic based stimulation. There’s also a nice comparison of visual implants at several levels, including retina, optic nerve, and cortex.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 10th, 2005 at 2:24 am by Neville Sanjana and is filed under Neural prosthetics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.