Elizabeth Musz

The paper investigates whether deafferented visual cortices of blind individuals represent common spatial maps of naturalistic auditory stimuli, finding shared cross-subject pattern similarity in visual cortex for meaningful stimuli.

The paper investigates how temporal compression in memory retelling affects neural patterns, showing systematic encoding-to-recall transformations in higher associative brain regions.

The paper uses fMRI to compare cross-modal responses in visual cortex of congenitally blind, adult-onset blind, and sighted individuals, finding that visual cortex plasticity for auditory processing occurs only in those born blind.