Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind.

By E. Striem-Amit, Leonardo G. Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene, Amir Amedi. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan (2016, background): “Interestingly, this interplay can be demonstrated even after very short training using SSDs in the nondeprived and normally developed sighted brain [81].”
Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition (2015, unknown): “…tuning, the term ‘visual word form area’ has been challenged by recent observations that the VWFA site also emerges at an identical cortical location when congenitally blind adults learn to read in Braille 52,53 or learn to recognize letter shapes using an auditory sensory sub-stitution device 54 .”
The origins of metamodality in visual object area LO: Bodily topographical biases and increased functional connectivity to S1 (2016, unknown): “…(Amedi et al., 2007; Collignon et al., 2011; Fiehler et al., 2009; Mahon et al., 2009; Matteau et al., 2010; Ptito et al., 2012; Reich et al., 2011; Striem-Amit et al., 2012a), thus ruling out visual mental imagery as an exclusive driving mechanism and suggesting that cortical functional…”
Origins of task-specific sensory-independent organization in the visual and auditory brain: neuroscience evidence, open questions and clinical implications. (2015, unknown): “The first is known as the biased connectivity principle (BCp), which posits that task-specific recruitment draws on pre-existing cortical connections linking the ventral occipito-temporal cortex TSSI regions to the rest of the networks processing information for a specific computational task (see al”
Flexibility and Stability in Sensory Processing Revealed Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution (2014, background): “Auditory soundscapes are undecipherable before learning the transformation principles, but become informative after a short learning phase (Kim and Zatorre 2008; Striem-Amit et al. 2012b).”
Multisensory integration: flexible use of general operations (2014, unknown): “This is based on repeated findings that task-related specialization in e.g., visual cortex is independent of the input modality (Striem-Amit et al., 2012).”
Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles (2015, methodology): “…and scene-selective (parahippocampal place area, PPA; Epstein and Kanwisher, 1998) visual areas, we conducted an additional visual localizer experiment on a separate group of seven normally sighted participants, using a standard visual localizer experiment (detailed in Striem-Amit et al., 2012a).”
Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area (2025, unknown): “For instance, studies conducted on congenitally blind readers showed responses to Braille script in tactile modality ( Reich et al., 2011) and to letter shapes coded by auditory soundscapes ( Striem-Amit et al., 2012).”