Plasticity in Sensory SystemsJennifer K. E. Steeves, Laurence R. Harris Cambridge University Press, 2013 - 277 páginas Plasticity is a fundamental property of neural development and learning in living organisms. It also contributes to problems associated with aging and degenerative processes. Understanding neural plasticity has huge implications for those seeking to recover from brain injury or sensory deprivation and regular folk vying to improve their skills and ability. Centered on three themes, this book explores the latest research in plasticity in sensory systems, with a focus primarily on visual and auditory systems. It covers a breadth of recent scientific study within the field including research on healthy systems and diseased models of sensory processing. Topics include visual and visuomotor learning, models of how the brain codes visual information, sensory adaptations in vision and hearing as a result of partial or complete visual loss in childhood, plasticity in the adult visual system, and plasticity across the senses, as well as new techniques in vision recovery, rehabilitation, and sensory substitution of other senses when one sense is lost. This unique edited volume, the fruit of an International Conference on Plastic Vision held at York University, Toronto, will provide students and scientists with an overview of the ongoing research related to sensory plasticity and perspectives on the direction of future work in the field. |
Conteúdo
List of Contributors page | 1 |
The Distributed Nature of Visual Object Learning | 9 |
Motor Adaptation and Proprioceptive Recalibration | 33 |
Deficits and Adaptation of EyeHand Coordination | 49 |
Amir Amedi Herbert C Goltz | 67 |
Lessons from Children Treated | 75 |
Summary of Experimental Findings on Human Binocular | 82 |
Summary | 88 |
Functional and Specific | 114 |
Critical Periods for Crossmodal Reorganization | 121 |
Crossmodal Plasticity in Early Blindness | 138 |
Visual Plasticity of the Adult Brain | 155 |
Acquiring Stereopsis | 175 |
Applying Plasticity to Visual Rehabilitation in Adulthood | 229 |
255 | |
274 | |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
ability activation adults amblyopic eye Amedi anisometropic auditory bilateral congenital cataracts binocular viewing biological motion blind subjects Brain Res cells changes Collignon congenitally blind contrast sensitivity cortical critical period crossmodal damage deficits detection discrimination dorsal early blind early visual deprivation effects enucleation error expertise extrastriate face perception fellow eye Figure fMRI fusiform fusiform gyrus global motion Hess Hubel hypothesis images improvements intact lesions Maurer Mondloch monkeys monocular motor neural Neuroimage neurons Neurophysiol Neurosci normal eyes objects occipital cortex Ophthalmol Pascual-Leone pathway patients perception perceptual learning perimetry plasticity proprioceptive Rauschecker reaching movements recovery regions rehabilitation reorganization responses retinal rtACS rTMS Sabel saccades sensory substitution sensory systems sighted sound localization SSDs Steeves stereopsis stimulation strabismus studies target task temporal therapy threshold ventral Vision Res vision therapy visual areas visual cortex visual field visual functions visual input visual system visuomotor adaptation Wiesel