Cross-modal plasticity after partial vision loss in adulthood: the impact of social isolation, serotonin and the synaptic vesicle cycle KU Leuven
Cross-modal brain plasticity is a typical response of the mammalian brain to maximally compensate for the loss of one sensory function by recruiting and fine-tuning a remaining sense. It improves for instance tactile information processing in Braille-reading patients, and fine-tunes hearing capabilities in echo-locating blind individuals. This life-quality-improving structural and functional phenomenon occurs fast after sensory loss, often ...