FMRI OF INVERTED VISION: PLASTICITY OF VISUOSPATIAL MAPS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 我们建议，在这项研究中，观察重组的中枢神经系统的视觉和听觉处理领域在适应视觉颠倒的世界。 虽然在过去的100年里，这种适应的行为特征已经得到了很好的描述，但人类对这种适应背后的神经可塑性却知之甚少。 现代功能磁共振成像为我们提供了一个独特而重要的机会，可以无创地观察人类大脑不同区域在这种大规模适应过程中和之后的功能重组。

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.