Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to
enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to …

Although much traditional sensory research has studied each sensory modality in isolation,
there has been a recent explosion of interest in causal interplay between different senses …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

As many as two million people in the United Kingdom repeatedly see people, animals, and
objects that have no objective reality. Hallucinations on the border of sleep, dementing …

In the journal Touching the Rock, written by John Hull, it is full of piercing insights relating to
Hull's life as a blind person, but most striking for the author is Hull's description of how he …

Background The loss of vision has been associated with enhanced performance in non-
visual tasks such as tactile discrimination and sound localization. Current evidence suggests …

Abstract Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a condition where visual hallucinations occur as a
result of damage along the visual pathway. Patients with Charles Bonnet Syndrome …

In this report, the phenomenology of two blind users of a sensory substitution device–“The
vOICe”–that converts visual images to auditory signals is described. The users both report …

H or psychosis? Have you wondered which medical and neurologic illnesses may present
with visual hallucinations? Have you deliberated about how best to work up and treat …