The only thing I ask of neuroscientists is to make subjects see a bright rising line when hearing a rising tone. What could be simpler?

#neuroscience #neuroengineering #plasticity #neuroplasticity #crossmodal #multisensory #moonshot #makeadifference

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Top-down effects on cross-modal stimulus processing: A predictive coding framework https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2792479 #crossmodal #multisensory #neuroscience

Electrophysiological evidence for increased auditory #crossmodal activity in adult #ADHD https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1227767/full "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1227767/full "#visual cortex shows more activation during a focused #auditory task in adults with ADHD than in healthy controls"

(2014) Tracking the evolution of #crossmodal #plasticity and visual functions before and after sight-restoration (PDF) https://journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10.1152/jn.00420.2014 "In primary #visual #cortex, crossmodal #auditory responses overlapped with visual responses and remained elevated even 7 mo after surgery" #neuroscience

Crossmodal visual predictions elicit spatially specific early visual cortex activity but later than real visual stimuli https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0339 "participants were exposed to audiovisual combinations comprising one of two sounds and a Gabor patch either in the top left or in the bottom right visual field."

A PDF of a preprint can be found at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.14.520404v1 #crossmodal #neuroscience

Characterizing the temporal dynamics of visual-auditory perception and cross-modal mental imagery https://ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2301/index.cfm?do=abs.viewAbs&abs=4011 #OHBM2023 #multisensory #crossmodal #neuroscience

Mapping multi-modal #brain #connectome for brain disorder diagnosis via cross-modal mutual learning https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10182318 Potentially relevant to charting perceptual processing in sensory substitution for the blind; #crossmodal #multisensory #AI #neuroscience

Cross-modal interactions between auditory attention and oculomotor control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.11.548515v1 "involvement of auditory attention in modulating the later stages" of microsaccade inhibition; #crossmodal #multisensory

Simple shape feature computation across modalities: convergence and divergence between the ventral and dorsal visual streams https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhad200/7190929 "mid-level shape features are represented in a modality-independent manner in both the ventral and dorsal streams"; #crossmodal #multisensory #neuroscience

#Deafness induces complete #crossmodal #plasticity in a belt region of dorsal #auditory #cortex https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.16075 "In early-deaf dorsal zone of auditory cortex, no auditory activation was observed, but 100% of the neurons were responsive to #visual cues"; #multisensory #neuroscience

Network localization of awareness in visual and motor #anosognosia https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ana.26709 "distinct network connections associated with visual and motor anosognosia and a shared, cross-modal network for awareness of deficits centered on memory-related brain structures"; #crossmodal #neuroscience

(Powerpoint) Presentation given at the Durham workshop on "New directions in #sensory #substitution and #augmentation", May 18, 2023 https://www.seeingwithsound.com/extra/Durham2023.pptx #visual #prosthesis, #BCI, #blind, #blindness, #crossmodal #perception, #vision

Transfer of figure-ground segregation learning is facilitated by a cross-modal auditory feature-based attention cue https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.05.539385v1 #crossmodal

#Crossmodal #plasticity following short-term #monocular #deprivation (MD) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811923002926 "MD boosted neural responses to audio-visual events for the non-deprived eye"; #neuroscience

Microglia enable cross-modal plasticity by removing inhibitory synapses (in mice) https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00394-7 "Visual deprivation increases visual cortex (V2L) excitability during whisker stimulation", "Microglia phagocytose local inhibitory synapses to unmask cross-modal plasticity" #microglia #crossmodal #plasticity #neuroscience

#Crossmodal #plasticity in hearing loss https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(23)00045-0

Saccadic modulation of neural excitability in auditory areas of the neocortex https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00157-4 visual "saccades modulate excitability in numerous auditory cortical areas with a temporal pattern complementary to that seen in visual areas" #multisensory #crossmodal #neuroscience

Touching with the eyes: Oculomotor self-touch induces illusory body ownership https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)00257-2 "Eye movements are as effective as finger movements in inducing the rubber hand illusion"; #crossmodal #multisensory #neuroscience

Visual cortical plasticity: molecular mechanisms as revealed by induction paradigms in rodents https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/5/4701 "we review two major protocols: ocular-dominance (OD) and cross-modal (CM) plasticity in rodents"; #crossmodal #plasticity

Visually evoked potentials (VEPs) across the visual field in hearing and deaf cats https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.997357/full "Our results suggested that cross-modal plasticity following deafness does not play a major part in cortical processing of the peripheral visual field when the 'vision for action' system is not recruited"; #crossmodal #plasticity