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SUBMITTER: Prasad S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5558002 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prasad Seema S Patil Gouri Shanker GS Mishra Ramesh Kumar RK
Scientific reports 20170815 1
Compensatory changes as a result of auditory deprivation in the deaf lead to higher visual processing skills. In two experiments, we explored if such brain plasticity in the deaf modulates processing of masked stimuli in the visual modality. Deaf and normal-hearing participants responded to targets either voluntarily or by instruction. Masked primes related to the response were presented briefly before the targets at the center and the periphery. In Experiment 1, targets appeared only at the fov ...[more]