Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex

By Jitendra Sharma, Alessandra Angelucci, Mriganka Sur. 2000

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Neural plasticity across the lifespan (2016, background): “This rewiring causes auditory cortex to become responsive to visual stimuli and to develop many of the properties of visual cortex, including very specific characteristics such as orderly orientation tuning (something not normally found in auditory cortex).(27) Another example is within the sensorim”
Development and plasticity of cortical areas and networks (2001, background): “Optical imaging of intrinsic signals in A1 of rewired ferrets reveals that orientation-tuned neurons are organized into an orientation ma”
The evolution of the language faculty: clarifications and implications. (2005, background): “For example “rewired” ferrets develop working visual cortex in the temporal lobes (where auditory cortex would normally be found) ( Sharma, Angelucci, & Sur, 2000; von Melchner, Pallas, & Sur, 2000), and their visual behaviour is indistinguishable from that of control animals.”
To recognize shapes, first learn to generate images. (2007, background): “equivalent of using hand-coded features is to assume that the receptive fields of feature detectors are specified innately – a view that is increasingly untenable (Merzenich et al., 1983; Sharma et al., 2000; Karni et al., 1994).”
Benefits of multisensory learning. (2008, background): “correlations between auditory and visual inputs alters the multisensory representation in the superior colliculus [26], and disruption to the inputs to auditory cortex can result in this area being driven by visual inputs [ 27 ].”
Exploring the Thalamus and its Role in Cortical Function, S.M. Sherman, R.W. Guillery (Eds.). The MIT Press (2006), ISBN: 0-262-19532-1 (2007, background): “Sur and colleagues (Sur et al., 1988; Sharma et al., 2000; Von Melchner et al., 2000), working with young ferrets, redirected retinofugal axons into auditory thalamus after removing the visual cortex and superior colliculus.”