Losing and recovering sight | Olivier Collignon | TEDxUCLouvain скачать в хорошем качестве

Losing and recovering sight | Olivier Collignon | TEDxUCLouvain

Approximately one third of our brain is involved in processing visual data. What becomes of these regions in born blind people? Are they simply left unused? No, the brain adapts and those regions normally dedicated to vision reorganize to process the senses of hearing, touch… and even language and memory! But what happens then if a blind person recovers sight? Can the plasticity associated with blindness then interfere with the optimal recovery of vision? Olivier Collignon completed his PhD in psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain in 2006. His laboratory relies on the respective advantages of a plurality of methods (Psychophysics, EEG/MEG, stereotactic-EEG, TMS, fMRI) to converge toward a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying crossmodal perception and plasticity. His research is driven by the strong conviction that the study of sensory deprived individuals represents an excellent model to probe how the brain develops, maintains and changes its functional tuning to adapt its interaction with the environment. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx