Chapter 15
Task-selectivity in the sensory deprived brain and sensory substitution approaches for clinical practice
Evidence from blindness
Benedetta Heimler
1
, and Amir Amedi
1
,
2
1
Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel
2
Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract
What are the principles underlying the emergence of specializations in the human brain? In the last few decades, convergent evidence from studies with sensory deprived populations such as blind and deaf adults showed that most of the ...
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