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| Title |
Rapid and Reversible Recruitment of Early Visual Cortex for Touch
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0003046 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lotfi B. Merabet, Roy Hamilton, Gottfried Schlaug, Jascha D. Swisher, Elaine T. Kiriakopoulos, Naomi B. Pitskel, Thomas Kauffman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone |
| Abstract |
The loss of vision has been associated with enhanced performance in non-visual tasks such as tactile discrimination and sound localization. Current evidence suggests that these functional gains are linked to the recruitment of the occipital visual cortex for non-visual processing, but the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these crossmodal changes remain uncertain. One possible explanation is that visual deprivation is associated with an unmasking of non-visual input into visual cortex. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 90% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 293 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 274 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 66 | 23% |
| Researcher | 65 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 16 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 13% |
| Unknown | 33 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 99 | 34% |
| Neuroscience | 44 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 33 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 9% |
| Engineering | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 35 | 12% |
| Unknown | 47 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2022.
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#685,096
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#9,309
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#1,326
of 91,133 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#21
of 425 outputs
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