Manini, Barbara;
Vinogradova, Valeria;
Woll, Bencie;
Cameron, Donnie;
Eimer, Martin;
Cardin, Velia;
(2022)
Sensory experience modulates the reorganization of auditory regions for executive processing.
Brain
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Abstract
Crossmodal plasticity refers to the reorganisation of sensory cortices in the absence of their typical main sensory input. Understanding this phenomenon provides insights into brain function and its potential for change and enhancement. Using fMRI, we investigated how early deafness influences crossmodal plasticity and the organisation of executive functions in the adult human brain. Deaf (N = 25; age: mean = 41.68, range = 19-66, SD = 14.38; 16 female, 9 male) and hearing (N = 20; age: mean= 37.50, range= 18-66, SD= 16.85; 15 female, 5 male) participants performed four visual tasks tapping into different components of executive processing: task switching, working memory, planning and inhibition. Our results show that deaf individuals specifically recruit "auditory" regions during task switching. Neural activity in superior temporal regions, most significantly in the right hemisphere, are good predictors of behavioural performance during task switching in the group of deaf individuals, highlighting the functional relevance of the observed cortical reorganisation. Our results show executive processing in typically sensory regions, suggesting that the development and ultimate role of brain regions are influenced by perceptual environmental experience.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Sensory experience modulates the reorganization of auditory regions for executive processing |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/brain/awac205 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac205 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | auditory cortex, deafness, executive function |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150322 |
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