Egocentric navigation network plasticity: Training extends functional connectivity of V6 to frontal areas of congenitally blind people
Elena Aggius-Vella, Daniel-Robert Chebat, Shachar Maidenbaum, Amir Amedi · FENS Forum 2024
Retinotopically organized visual area 6 (V6) processes optic flow in animals and humans. We previously demonstrated that V6 is a sensory independent area involved in egocentric navigation. Indeed, V6 of congenitally blind (CB) people encodes auditory input for egocentric navigation similarly to the way V6 of sighted people encodes visual cues. In the current study, rest functional connectivity was used to investigate training induced brain connectivity changes in CB participants. CB participants were scanned during resting state sessions before and after a three-day training period learning to
ePoster · Neuroscience