Interesting
- A man with only half a brain
- A study of a man who recovered vision after decades of being blind: Fine et al. (2003) Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 6, p915.
- How Utter Darkness Could Heal Lazy Eye: related to ocular dominance critical period.
- Giving blind people sight illuminates the brain’s secrets
General review
- Anderson et al (2011) Do children really recover better? Neurobehavioural plasticity after early brain insult. Brain 134, 2197-2221.
- Pascual-Leone et al. (2005) The plastic human brain cortex. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 28, p377.
Critical periods:
- Review paper: Knudsen (2004) Sensitive periods in the development of the brain and behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16, p1412.
Cognitive studies
- Should you learn music as early as possible? Read Penhune (2011) Sensitive periods in human development: evidence from musical training. Cortex 47:1126-1137.
- Costa & Sebastián-Gallés (2014) How does bilingual experience sculpt the brain? Nat Rev Neurosci 15, p336.
Crossmodal plasticity (congenital blindness and deafness)
- Pascual-Leone et al. (2005) The plastic human brain cortex. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 28, p377.
- Merabet & Pascual-Leone (2010) Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change. Nat Rev Neurosci 11, p44.
- Collignon et al. (2009) Cross-modal plasticity for the spatial processing of sounds in visually deprived subjects. Exp Brain Res 192, p343.
- Büchel et al. (1998) Different activation patterns in the visual cortex of late and congenitally blind subjects. Brain 121, p409.
- Goldreich & Kanics (2003) Tactile acuity is enchanced in blindness. J. Neurosci. 23, p3439.
- Rauschecker (1995) Compensatory plasticity and sensory substitution in the cerebral cortex. Trends in Neuroscience, 18, p36.
- Amedi et al. (2003) Early ‘visual’ cortex activation correlates with superior verbal memory performance in the blind. Nat Neurosci. 6, 758.