NEURAL PLASTICITY ASSOCIATED WITH BRAILLE LEARNING

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的研究机构。 该协议旨在研究触觉和听觉处理的空间和非空间信息的视力科目之前和之后的蒙住眼睛五天。结果将与有视力、无视力障碍的受试者进行比较。在视力正常的受试者中，任务的视觉版本将用于识别基线时参与每个任务的视觉皮层区域。在5天的实验过程中，将对每例受试者进行重复研究，因此除组分析外，还将进行受试者内分析。

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. This protocol seeks to study tactile and auditory processing of spatial and non-spatial information in sighted subjects before and following blindfolding for five days. Results will be compared with those of sighted, non-visually deprived subjects. In the sighted subjects, visual versions of the tasks will be used to identify the visual cortical regions engaged in each task at baseline. Each subject will be studied repeatedly over the course of the 5 days of the experiment and hence with-in subject analysis will be applicable, in addition to the group analysis.