Federici, Alessandra and Bernardi, Giulio and Senna, Irene and Fantoni, Marta and Ernst, Marc O and Ricciardi, Emiliano and Bottari, Davide (2023) Crossmodal plasticity following short-term monocular deprivation. NeuroImage, 274. ISSN 1053-8119
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Abstract
A brief period of monocular deprivation (MD) induces short-term plasticity of the adult visual system. Whether MD elicits neural changes beyond visual processing is yet unclear. Here, we assessed the specific impact of MD on neural correlates of multisensory processes. Neural oscillations associated with visual and audio-visual processing were measured for both the deprived and the non-deprived eye. Results revealed that MD changed neural activities associated with visual and multisensory processes in an eye-specific manner. Selectively for the deprived eye, alpha synchronization was reduced within the first 150 ms of visual processing. Conversely, gamma activity was enhanced in response to audio-visual events only for the non-deprived eye within 100–300 ms after stimulus onset. The analysis of gamma responses to unisensory auditory events revealed that MD elicited a crossmodal upweight for the non-deprived eye. Distributed source modeling suggested that the right parietal cortex played a major role in neural effects induced by MD. Finally, visual and audio-visual processing alterations emerged for the induced component of the neural oscillations, indicating a prominent role of feedback connectivity. Results reveal the causal impact of MD on both unisensory (visual and auditory) and multisensory (audio-visual) processes and, their frequency-specific profiles. These findings support a model in which MD increases excitability to visual events for the deprived eye and audio-visual and auditory input for the non-deprived eye.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Neural plasticity, Multisensory, Crossomdal, Monocular deprivation, EEG, Neural oscillations |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Irene Senna |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2023 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2023 13:03 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3918 |
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