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Task-selective or pluripotent? Studying plasticity of blind visual cortex with TMS and fMRI

2017/27/N/HS6/02669

Keywords:

visual cortex brain plasticity

Descriptors:

  • HS6_1:
  • HS6_5:
  • NZ4_10:

Panel:

HS6 - Human nature and human society: psychology, pedagogy/education studies, sociology

Host institution :

Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Jacek Matuszewski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 14 - announced on 2017-09-15

Amount awarded: 209 800 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-07-26

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-07-25

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (2)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  1. How learning to read Braille in visual and tactile domains reorganizes the sighted brain
    Authors:
    Gaca Maciej, Olszewska Alicja, Droździel Dawid, Kulesza Agnieszka, Paplińska Małgorzata, Kossowski Bartosz, Jednoróg Katarzyna, Matuszewski Jacek, Herman Aleksandra, Marchewka Artur
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Neuroscience (rok: 2024, tom: 18, strony: 1297344), Wydawca: Frontiers Media S.A.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fnins.2024.1297344 - link to the publication
  2. Similar Computational Hierarchies for Reading and Speech in the Occipital Cortex of Sighed and Blind: Converging Evidence from fMRI and Chronometric TMS
    Authors:
    Matuszewski Jacek, Bola Łukasz, Collignon Olivier, Marchewka Artur
    Academic press:
    Journal of Neuroscience (rok: 2025, tom: 45 (20), strony: e1153242024), Wydawca: Society of Neuroscience
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1153-24.2024 - link to the publication
  1. FUNCTIONAL INVOLVEMENT OF OCCIPITAL CORTEX DURING READING AND SPEECH PROCESSING IN CONGENITAL BLINDNESS: EVIDENCE FROM FMRI AND TMS
    Authors:
    Jacek Matuszewski, Łukasz Bola, Olivier Collignon, Artur Marchewka
    Conference:
    NEURONUS IBRO NEUROSCIENCE FORUM (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Data:
    konferencja 15-17 października
    Status:
    Published