Deaf CI users recruit the temporal voice area for visual lip-reading

Evidence

In contrast, Rouger et al. ( 2012 ) suggested a negative impact of cross modal plasticity: they found that the right temporal voice area (TVA) was abnormally activated in CI users by a visual speech-reading task and that this activity declined over time after implantation while the activity in Broca’s area (normally activated by speech reading) increased over time after implantation. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4273

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-modal takeover of auditory areas connects to the reader’s interest in how auditory deprivation reshapes cognition.