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. 2017 Sep 19;114(38):10003-10005.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1712810114. Epub 2017 Aug 31.

Cooperation between hearing and vision in people with cochlear implants

Mark T Wallace  1   2   3   4
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Cooperation between hearing and vision in people with cochlear implants

Mark T Wallace. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Schematic of two possible outcomes of cross-modal plasticity in CI patients. On the top line drawing of the human brain, the STC (shown in shading) is depicted, the site of the auditory cortex. Before CI, the STC is responsive to visual speech (V) as a result of profound deafness. On the Lower Left, the results of a competitive model are depicted and in which visual (V) influences decline as auditory (A) input to the STC increases. On the Lower Right, the results of a cooperative model are depicted and in which both visual (V) and auditory (A) influences in the STC grow as experience with multisensory (i.e., audiovisual) speech increases.
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