{"id":756,"date":"2015-01-20T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/?p=756"},"modified":"2015-01-20T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:26:32","slug":"its-time-to-relabel-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time to Relabel the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/psychsciencenotes.blogspot.ie\/2015\/01\/its-time-to-relabel-brain.html\">It&#8217;s Time to Relabel the Brain<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\">\u00a0http:\/\/psychsciencenotes.blogspot.ie\/2015\/01\/its-time-to-relabel-brain.html<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">Another day, <a href=\"http:\/\/brief.euretina.org\/bio-ophthalmology\/congenitally-blind-patients-reading-through-sound-show-activation-of-visual-cortex-in-the-brain-including-response-to-colour\">another study finds that &#8216;visual&#8217; cortex is activated by something other than information from the eyes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A research team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently demonstrated that the same part of the visual cortex activated in sighted individuals when reading is also activated in blind patients who use sounds to \u201cread\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>The specific area of the brain in question is a patch of left ventral visual cortex located lateral to the mid-portion of the left fusiform gyrus, referred to as the \u201cvisual word form area\u201d (VWFA). Significant prior research has shown the VWFA to be specialized for the visual representation of letters, in addition to demonstrating a selective preference for letters over other visual stimuli. The Israeli-based research team showed that eight subjects, blind from birth, specifically and selectively activated the VWFA during the processing of letter \u201csoundscapes\u201d using a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) (see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeingwithsound.com\/\">www.seeingwithsound.com<\/a> for description of device).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Time to Relabel the Brain \u00a0http:\/\/psychsciencenotes.blogspot.ie\/2015\/01\/its-time-to-relabel-brain.html Another day, another study finds that &#8216;visual&#8217; cortex is activated by something other than information from the eyes: A research team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently demonstrated that the same part&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyesofthings.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}