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The plastic brain: understanding with the central visual language.

second from Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3. 2011


Reprogrammed center of vision in blind An additional area of the brain for language processing

The visual center in the brain of blind people is the Listen or key activated. Now a study confirms that even at higher cognitive as the speech processing is recruited.

By Lena Stallmach

In the brain of blind people remains the central visual system is not wasted. Several areas in the visual cortex in the occipital lobes at the hearing of sounds, read the Braille and enabled the general keys. This raised the question of whether these nerve cells in Braille reading respond to the Tastsensation or the processing of the texts. Marina Bedny from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and her colleagues now show that the visual cortex in the understanding of spoken Language very similar activation pattern as the classical language areas. ¹

importance decisive

with functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers measured the blood flow to the brain in sighted and blind from birth subjects. From the measured values, the oxygen consumption and thus derived the activity of nerve cells. The participants listened to the measurement of five different types, but equally long-lasting speech samples from a tape: meaningful sentences, word lists, classically constructed Sets of pseudo-words (nonsense sentences), pseudo-word lists or sentences spoken backwards. A few seconds later a word, pseudo-or backward-word was played, and participants should decide whether this had occurred in the speech sample.

It was found in the classical language areas in the anterior and lateral cortex in blind and sighted people the same pattern: With reasonable rates, the circulation was improved as compared to baseline values much less increase it was with word lists and nonsense sentences. In pseudo-word lists and backward movements she was little changed or lower than at rest.

changes in the visual cortex of sighted subjects, the blood flow compared to baseline values only slightly. In contrast to the blind, they showed a very similar pattern to that of the language areas. She was with reasonable rates much higher than for all other samples, which were sometimes difficult to remember. The visual cortex thus not to speak to the difficulty of a task, but the meaning of the sentence says Bedny, and how the activation with nonsense sentences show on the grammatical structure. Therefore seems the visual cortex in blind people to play a similar role as the language areas in the sighted.

This is an amazing result, says Bedny, as this would mean that the visual cortex processing not only simple sensory stimuli such as pictures, sounds or Tastsensationen, but is also involved with higher intellectual achievements. Fundamental knowledge of this is new, however. In the last ten years, several studies have shown that the visual cortex is activated during language processing in the blind. The neuropsychologist Brigitte Röder, Frank Rösler, who work at the University of Potsdam, Hamburg or used, even a very similar study design and came to the same conclusion. They also asked whether the blind because the recruitment of the additional network benefits in language processing have, and showed that they were quicker at understanding a task few milliseconds as sighted subjects. Rösler criticized the new study appears in a prestigious journal such as "PNAS", although nothing really new shows.

Drastic plasticity

Amedi Amir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is not as critical. Although he sees the lack of review of the performance of the subjects had a deficiency in Bednys work. But they do show, however, very convincing as similar to the classical language areas and some parts were working in the visual cortex in blind people.

The observed activity, however, reveals nothing about the function of the visual cortex in language processing. Perhaps it is a by-product and is suppressed in seeing through the visual stimuli. But Amedi showed several years ago that poor blind man in a simple language comprehension test sections, provided that their visual cortex was temporarily paralyzed by magnetic stimulation. The same procedure affected the performance of sighted subjects did not.

Since the visual cortex with the characteristic arrangement of its nerve cells could take on apparently similar functions as the very different design language areas, this means that the condition of the brain regions do not play so great a part, says Bedny. Amedi and thinks that maybe could take every possible function of each brain area . But this must be well proven yet.

¹ PNAS, online publication of 28 February 2011.

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[Monthly] January & February 2011

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January

: Is
6 books: 1

dog 21/01/2011 - 22/01/2011

burns Martin Rütter

Arcadia - - German German - dog Kai Meyer

07/01/2011 The sons of the island - Jean Johnson

01/05/2011 The healer - Janice Hardy

01/04/2011 Sephira: The Brotherhood of the Shadow - Corina Bomann

01/03/2011 Dark Side Park Season 1-3 ( HB ) - Ivar Leon Menger

01/02/2011 The Tribute by Panem 2 - Suzanne Collins

new entries: 15 books

this review copies:

Steven Omen, Amo Vitam

Betty Belitz, broken glass moon

Janice Nowak, The Song of the Banshee

Susan Kearney, Mistress of Time Traveler

Spencer Quinn, Bernie & Chet

bought thereof:

Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Jessica Verday, The Hollow

Sarah McLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a rake

Ally Condie, matched

Suzanne Collins Tribute by Panem - Blazing anger

Mary Hooper, the sister of the sugar-maker & ash flowers

Dan Wells, I will not kill you get

given them:

Marianne Curley, The Named

Karen Miller The Innocent Mage

Karen Miller The Awakened Mage

highlight in January:

Conclusion:

puppies hold on the reading. But well, that's nothing new - is therefore still considered conclusion.

little explanation as to the dog: Jackie is not my First Dog, more precisely, it is the second. I got my first dog of eight years - a black miniature schnauzer lady named Joanna. Jo was kind and intelligenzt and amazing in every way, but also very stubborn and not educated. First, my parents had with three young children will not have time for the education, the other three had probably made every attempt naught anyway:)

Jo died about two years ago from a tumor. I had just finished school, so she gave me the gift that is also made to withstand my graduation time - because the diagnosis was made at exactly the time when I was in the worst graduation stress. As it was said that she would probably still a week or two. But not so with our dog - she has still managed a couple of months.

then did it a half year of mourning and then the next great love. I think that happens just like that.

And this dog is trained, the whole course takes more time. But first results are already posted. Jackie can sit, down, stand, give, Apport. Not bad for a four-month-old dog, eh? : D So much for the dog

tables.

In January, I have especially moved two sequels, namely Tribute by Panem - Dangerous Love and Arcadia burns. Unlike many other central sections (it is both a trilogy), the second part is almost better than the first - in Arcadia even burn a lot better! Thus takes to please a single heart. There

reviews it for two reasons these books do not:

first A dog takes a lot of time

second I review sequels generally more reluctant. For those who have not read the first part, which is mostly pure Spoilerei. Read

February

: 3 books

24/02/2011 The Monstrumologe - Rick Yancey
02/20/2011 The Named - Marianne Curley
02.02.2011 Frankfurt poetics lectures - Urs Widmer

new entries: 15 books

this review copies:

Tracy Buchanan, star converter

bought thereof:

Valentina Berger, The Eye Schneider

Sara Douglass, The glass witch

Ingeborg Bayer, city of dark masks

Claire Knightley, Dark Moon

Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

Marianne Curley, The Dark

Sebastian Fitzek, The Collectors Eye

Beth Revis, Across the Universe

Lisa McMann, Gone

given them get:

Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood

Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss

Nalini Singh, Archangel's Consort

Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Steal

Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Secret

not highlight the small number of books - also because there was not a real highlight.

Conclusion:

See January;)