FMRI OF INVERTED VISION: PLASTICITY OF VISUOSPATIAL MAPS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 在这项研究中，我们建议观察中枢神经系统视觉和听觉处理区域在适应视觉倒置世界的过程中的重组。虽然在过去的100年里，这种适应的行为特征已经被很好地描述了，但人类对这种适应可能基础的神经可塑性了解很少。现代功能磁共振成像为我们提供了独特而重要的机会，可以在如此大规模的适应过程中和之后，无创地观察人脑不同区域的功能重组。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. We propose, in this study, to observe the reorganization of the central nervous system visual and auditory processing areas during adaptation to a visually inverted world. While the behavioral characteristics of this adaption have been characterized well over the past 100 years, the neural plasticity likely to underlie the adaptation is understood poorly in humans. Modern fMRI presents us with the unique and important opportunity to observe functional reorganization in different areas of the human brain noninvasively druing and after such large-scale adaptation.