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SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3698371 | biostudies-other | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Li Yanyan Y Booth James R JR Peng Danling D Zang Yufeng Y Li Junhong J Yan Chaogan C Ding Guosheng G
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20120705 8
Functional organization of the brain can be fundamentally altered by auditory deprivation. Previous studies found that the superior temporal cortex in deaf people is reorganized to process non-auditory stimuli, as revealed by the extrinsic task-induced brain activities. However, it is unknown how the intrinsic activities of this region are impacted by deafness. This study explored this issue using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. We examined 60 congenitally deaf (CD) individu ...[more]