It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Traditionally the auditory system was considered a hard-wired sensory system; this view has
been challenged in recent years in light of the plasticity of other sensory systems, particularly …

Blind individuals often demonstrate enhanced nonvisual perceptual abilities. However, the
neural substrate that underlies this improved performance remains to be fully understood …

Blind individuals manifest remarkable abilities in navigating through space despite their lack
of vision. They have previously been shown to perform normally or even supra-normally in …

The primary visual cortex (V1) in congenitally blind humans has been shown to be involved
in tactile discrimination tasks, indicating that there is a shift in function of this area of cortex …

Until only a few decades ago, researchers still considered sensory cortices to be fixed or
“hardwired,” with specific cortical regions solely dedicated to the processing of selective …

Brain imaging studies describe visual cortex activity in blind people during nonvisual tasks
such as Braille reading, hearing words, or sensory discriminations of tactile or auditory …

Early visual deprivation can lead to changes in the brain, which may be explained by either
of two hypotheses. The general loss hypothesis has been proposed to explain …

Literacy for blind people requires learning Braille. Along with others, we have shown that
reading Braille activates visual cortex. This includes striate cortex (V1), ie, banks of calcarine …

We have previously shown that some visual motion areas can be specifically recruited by
auditory motion processing in blindfolded sighted subjects [Poirier, C., Collignon, O., De …