Cortical plasticity associated with Braille learning.

By R. Hamilton, Alvaro Pascual-Leone. 1998

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The Occipital Cortex in the Blind (2005, methodology): “A disruptive TMS pulse was applied at varying time intervals following the presentation of a Braille symbol to the subject’s index finger ( Hamilton, & Pascual-Leone, 1998 ).”
Neural Reorganization Following Sensory Loss: The Opportunity Of Change (2009, background): “For example, TMS delivered to the occipital cortex impairs Braille reading performance in proficient Braille reader”
The plastic human brain cortex. (2005, background): “Furthermore, the interhemispheric inhibitory drive from the unaffected to the affected motor cortex in the process of voluntary movement generation is abnormal (Murase et al. 2004).”
Cortical activity during tactile exploration of objects in blind and sighted humans (2010, background): “The issue of plasticity of tactile object recognition in the posterior occipital, early (“retinotopic” in sighted) areas in congenitally blind subjects has been studied extensively with Braille-like stimuli (Sadato et al. 1996; Cohen et al., 1997; Hamilton and Pascual-Leone 1998; Burton et al., 2002”
Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience--virtual lesion, chronometry, and functional connectivity. (2000, unknown): “For example, in a variation on the Braille reading studies [21], real or non-sensical Braille stimuli were presented to the pads of the reading (index) fingers of early blind subjects with a specially designed Braille stimulator.”