Neuronal plasticity in the brain is greatly enhanced during critical periods early in life and
was long thought to be rather limited thereafter. Studies in primary sensory areas of the …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

Tinnitus, the most common auditory disorder, affects about 40 million people in the United
States alone, and its incidence is rising due to an aging population and increasing noise …

The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity,
that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during …

In this review, we summarize recent evidence that perceptual learning can occur not only
under training conditions but also in situations of unattended and passive sensory …

It is important to understand the balance between cortical plasticity and stability in various
systems and across spatial scales in the adult brain. Here we review studies of adult …

Vision loss after retinal or cerebral visual injury (CVI) was long considered to be irreversible.
However, there is considerable potential for vision restoration and recovery even in …

Experience-dependent plasticity is a prominent feature of the mammalian visual cortex.
Although such neural changes are most evident during development, adult cortical circuits …

The functional architecture of adult cerebral cortex retains a capacity for experience-
dependent change. This is seen following focal binocular lesions, which induce rapid …

Progress in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) now makes it possible to identify the major
white matter tracts in the living human brain. These tracts are important because they carry …