Marina Bedny

Social vision expands into auditory cortices of people born deaf: evidence from naturalistic film and encoding models

The paper compares neural processing in deaf and hearing adults during a film task, finding enhanced visual encoding in auditory cortices of the deaf.

Expertise modifies neural responses to causal inference during language comprehension

The paper investigates how medical expertise affects neural responses to causal inferences in language comprehension, finding that physicians show stronger activation in animacy-related brain networks during illness-related causal reasoning.

Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks

The paper compares functional connectivity in visual cortices of blind and sighted adults with infants to show that visual experience shapes long-range connectivity patterns.

Visual experience shapes functional connectome gradients

This study compares cortical gradients in congenitally blind and sighted adults to assess the role of genetics and experience in shaping functional connectivity.

Neural specialization for 'visual' concepts emerges in the absence of vision

The paper compares neural responses to visual and non-visual concepts in sighted and congenitally blind individuals, finding that neural representations of visual concepts develop independently of visual experience.

Rapid "recycling" of logical algorithm representations in fronto-parietal reasoning systems following computer programming instructions

This study shows that programming rapidly recruits pre-existing fronto-parietal neural networks for logical reasoning, using fMRI in novice programmers before and after a Python course.

Visual experience contributes to separation of face and language responses in the ventral stream

The paper shows that visual experience helps separate face and language responses in the ventral stream, while blind individuals show overlapping responses.

Animacy semantic network supports implicit causal inferences about illness

The paper investigates how implicit causal inferences about illness are supported by the animacy semantic network using fMRI and finds that illness causality engages a specific part of the precuneus.

Neural signatures of reading-related orthographic processing in braille

The paper identifies neural signatures of orthographic processing in braille reading by comparing real and pseudowords using fMRI, showing distinct roles for posterior parietal cortices and somatosensory cortex.

Reading Modality Shapes Reading Network in Proficient Blind Readers of Braille

This study compares neural networks for reading visual print and tactile Braille, finding modality-specific patterns in brain activation and connectivity.

Naturalistic audio-movies reveal common spatial organization across "visual" cortices of different blind individuals

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.

Naturalistic stimuli reveal a critical period in visual cortex development: Evidence from adult-onset blindness

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.

Computer code comprehension shares neural resources with formal logical inference in the fronto-parietal network

The paper investigates the neural basis of code comprehension and finds it shares resources with formal logical inference in the fronto-parietal network.

A sensitive period in the neural phenotype of language in blind individuals

The paper investigates whether the neural basis of language in blind individuals follows a sensitive period by comparing congenitally blind, adult-onset blind, and sighted participants.

Neural basis of approximate number system develops independent of visual experience

The paper investigates whether the neural basis of the approximate number system in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) develops independently of visual experience by comparing sighted and congenitally blind individuals.

A double dissociation in sensitivity to verb and noun semantics across cortical networks.

The paper investigates neural networks for verb and noun semantics, finding distinct sensitivity patterns in specific brain regions.

Sensitive period for cognitive repurposing of human visual cortex

The paper investigates whether cognitive repurposing of visual cortex occurs across the lifespan or is restricted to sensitive periods, finding it is limited to congenital blindness.

\"Visual\" Cortices of Congenitally Blind Adults Respond to Executive Demands

The paper shows that in congenitally blind adults, 'visual' cortices respond to executive demands, mirroring fronto-parietal patterns and suggesting top-down reorganization.