Visual cortex recruitment during language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 3300
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41598-019-39864-1
- Title of journal
- Scientific Reports
- Article number
- 3579
- First page
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- Volume
- 9
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25727/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 6
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This computational modelling study explains the neural mechanisms that lead the part of the brain normally responsible to process visual information to become, in congenitally blind individuals, a “hub” devoted to language understanding. This is significant as it provides the first mechanistic explanation of this phenomenon, a feat of brain plasticity which has puzzled neuroscientists for decades. The article was mentioned in two news outlets and has had over 3000 online accesses (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39864-1/metrics). It builds upon previous work reported in the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Funded by EPSRC/BBSRC EP/J004561/1: BABEL, Brain-inspired architecture for brain embodied language.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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