| Description: | [Special Seminar] Prof. Brigitte Röder (University of Hamburg, Germany) -- Early Experience Leaves Permanent Traces in the Human Brain |
| Date: | Friday, Jan 05, 2018 |
| Time: | 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Venue: | 102, Lecture Hall Complex |
| Details: | Non-human animal research has suggested that learning and the underlying changes in the brain (neuroplasticity) differ in development and adulthood. The switch in learning mode might constitute the end of a sensitive phase in brain development. Using event-related potentials we demonstrated superior multisensory association leaning in infants compared to adults when stimuli were passively encountered. Adults learned only under explicit instructions demonstrating a change from stimulus-driven to top- down guided learning. By investigating humans who had suffered a total blindness from birth before their vision was restored, we show on the one side that neural and behavioural adaptations to blindness within the auditory system were kept. On the other side we observed incomplete recovery of visual functions which likely were due to a lack of functional tuning during the early stimulus driven phase of developmental learning (sensitive phase) |
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