Cortical hierarchy turned on its head

被引:26
作者
Büchel, C [1 ]
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[1] Univ Hamburg, Hosp Eppendorf, Ctr Imaging Neurosci, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany
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10.1038/nn0703-657
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
Sighted people devote much their cortex to visual processing, but in the blind, 'visual' areas are recruited for other senses. A paper in this issue now reports that V1 in the blind is also activated by a verbal memory task, without any sensory input.
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