Neural Pathways Conveying Novisual Information to the Visual Cortex

The visual cortex has been traditionally considered as a stimulus-driven, unimodal system with a hierarchical organization. However, recent animal and human studies have shown that the visual cortex responds to non-visual stimuli, especially in individuals with visual deprivation congenitally, indic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wen Qin, Chunshui Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/864920