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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2000, 20(7):2664-2672
A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Auditory Localization in the Congenitally Blind
Robert Weeks1, Barry Horwitz3, Ali Aziz-Sultan1, Biao Tian4, C. Mark Wessinger4, Leonardo G. Cohen2, Mark Hallett1, and Josef P. Rauschecker4 1 Human Motor Control Section, and 2 Human Cortical Physiology Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, and 3 Language Section, Voice, Speech, and Language Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and 4 Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007
We have used positron emission tomography (PET) to measure regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in sighted and congenitally blind subjects performing auditory localization tasks. During scanning, the spectral and binaural cues of localized sound were reproduced by a sound system and delivered via headphones. During tasks that required auditory localization both the sighted and blind subjects strongly activated posterior parietal areas. In addition, the blind subjects activated association areas in the right occipital cortex, the foci of which were similar to areas previously identified in visual location and motion detection experiments in sighted subjects. The blind subjects, therefore, demonstrated visual to auditory cross-modal plasticity with auditory localization activating occipital association areas originally intended for dorsal-stream visual processing.
To determine the functional connectivity of pre-selected brain regions in primary and non-primary auditory and posterior parietal cortex in the two cohorts, we performed an inter-regional correlation analysis on the rCBF data set. During auditory localization in the blind subjects, rCBF activity in the right posterior parietal cortex was positively correlated with that in the right occipital region, whereas in sighted subjects correlations were generally negative. There were no significant positive occipital correlations in either cohort when reference regions in temporal or left parietal cortex were chosen. This indicates that in congenitally blind subjects the right occipital cortex participates in a functional network for auditory localization and that occipital activity is more likely to arise from connections with posterior parietal cortex.
Key words: blindness; cross-modal plasticity; extrastriate; parietal cortex; positron emission tomography; sound localization
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/2072664-09$05.00/0
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