A sensitive period for language in the visual cortex: Distinct patterns of plasticity in congenitally versus late blind adults
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Auteurs : Marina Bedny [États-Unis] ; Alvaro Pascual-Leone [États-Unis, Espagne] ; Swethasri Dravida [États-Unis] ; Rebecca Saxe [États-Unis]Source :
- Brain and language [ 0093-934X ] ; 2011.
Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that blindness enables visual circuits to contribute to language processing. We examined whether this dramatic functional plasticity has a sensitive period. BOLD fMRI signal was measured in congenitally blind, late blind (blindness onset 9-years-old or later) and sighted participants while they performed a sentence comprehension task. In a control condition, participants listened to backwards speech and made match/non-match to sample judgments. In both, congenitally and late blind participants BOLD signal increased in bilateral foveal-pericalcarine cortex during response preparation, irrespective of whether the stimulus was a sentence or backwards speech. However, only in congenitally blind people left occipital areas (pericalcarine, extrastriate, fusiform and lateral) responded more to sentences than backwards speech. We conclude that age of blindness onset constrains the non-visual functions of occipital cortex: while plasticity is present in both congenitally and late blind individuals, recruitment of visual circuits for language depends on blindness during childhood.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.10.005
PubMed: 22154509
PubMed Central: 3536016
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