Practice makes perfect: the neural substrates of tactile discrimination by Mah-Jong experts include the primary visual cortex
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Auteurs : Daisuke N. Saito ; Tomohisa Okada ; Manabu Honda ; Yoshiharu Yonekura ; Norihiro SadatoSource :
- BMC Neuroscience [ 1471-2202 ] ; 2006.
Abstract
It has yet to be determined whether visual-tactile cross-modal plasticity due to visual deprivation, particularly in the primary visual cortex (V1), is solely due to visual deprivation or if it is a result of long-term tactile training. Here we conducted an fMRI study with normally-sighted participants who had undergone long-term training on the tactile shape discrimination of the two dimensional (2D) shapes on Mah-Jong tiles (Mah-Jong experts). Eight Mah-Jong experts and twelve healthy volunteers who were naïve to Mah-Jong performed a tactile shape matching task using Mah-Jong tiles with no visual input. Furthermore, seven out of eight experts performed a tactile shape matching task with unfamiliar 2D Braille characters.
When participants performed tactile discrimination of Mah-Jong tiles, the left lateral occipital cortex (LO) and V1 were activated in the well-trained subjects. In the naïve subjects, the LO was activated but V1 was not activated. Both the LO and V1 of the well-trained subjects were activated during Braille tactile discrimination tasks.
The activation of V1 in subjects trained in tactile discrimination may represent altered cross-modal responses as a result of long-term training.
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DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-79
PubMed: 17144928
PubMed Central: 1698492
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