02134nam 2200361 450 991077486380332120230803215424.0(CKB)3810000000208324(NjHacI)993810000000208324(EXLCZ)99381000000020832420170612c2014uuuu uu 0enguubu#---uu|uutxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierEarly cross-modal interactions and adult human visual cortical plasticity revealed by binocular rivalry /Claudia LunghiFirenze :Firenze University Press,20141 online resource (170 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Premio Tesi di Dottorato ;38Print version: 9788866556862 Includes bibliographical references.In this research binocular rivalry is used as a tool to investigate different aspects of visual and multisensory perception. Several experiments presented here demonstrated that touch speci cally interacts with vision during binocular rivalry and that the interaction likely occurs at early stages of visual processing, probably V1 or V2. Another line of research also presented here demonstrated that human adult visual cortex retains an unexpected high degree of experience-dependent plasticity by showing that a brief period of monocular deprivation produced important perceptual consequences on the dynamics of binocular rivalry, reflecting a homeostatic plasticity. In summary, this work shows that binocular rivalry is a powerful tool to investigate different aspects of visual perception and can be used to reveal unexpected properties of early visual cortex.Premio Tesi di Dottorato ;38.Clinical neuropsychologyClinical neuropsychology.616.8Lunghi Claudia1260994UkMaJRUBOOK9910774863803321Early cross-modal interactions and adult human visual cortical plasticity revealed by binocular rivalry2924831UNINA