[AERNet] brain plasticity and print and braille reading

[Sue Ponchillia]

Regarding the question about tactile and visual pathways in the
brain being the same:

This information is illustrated in the new book:
Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception
edited by Rieser, Ashmead, Ebner, and Corn.



Hi,
I was at a conference this weekend and one of the presenters
mentioned
that researchers at UCLA have found that the tactile and visual
pathways
to the brain are the same. She told us that if we wanted to read
the
research, that we could google Vision Science and that the UCLA
info (as
well as some interesting studies from Berkeley, Harvard and MIT)
would
come up.
Good luck,
Shari

mcdermottme at comcast.net (Maureen McDermott) writes:



Susan V. Ponchillia, Ed.D., CVRT
Professor/RT Program Coordinator
Department of  Blindness and Low Vision Studies
College of Health and Human Services
Western Michigan University
Mail Stop 5218
Kalamazoo, MI  49008
269-387-3450
fax 269-387-3567
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