Ella Striem-Amit

This study shows that people born without hands exhibit functional reorganization in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) due to lifelong compensatory foot use, indicating experience-driven plasticity beyond primary somatosensory cortex (SI).

The paper shows that tool-use brain representations in motor association areas are independent of the acting body part and motor experience.

This study investigates individual differences in brain reorganization due to congenital deafness, finding greater functional connectivity variability in deaf individuals compared to hearing individuals, influenced by language experience.

This study uses EEG to show that visual cortices are the earliest site of face and letter sensitivity when conveyed via sensory substitution devices in congenitally blind individuals.

The paper shows that individual patterns of visual cortex reorganization in blindness are stable over two years and can be used to decode participant identity.

This study shows that congenital blindness leads to more variable resting-state functional connectivity in visual cortex compared to sighted individuals, highlighting the impact of sensory experience on brain organization.

Sighted participants show left-lateralized, focal V1 activation for comprehensible speech versus reversed speech, independent of word concreteness or attention to word onsets.

The paper investigates the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands, finding an intact network despite lacking the corresponding motor experience.

The paper investigates brain plasticity in individuals born without hands, finding that primary sensorimotor cortex shows limited reorganization based on compensatory foot use, while association cortex exhibits functional reorganization.

The paper investigates how blind individuals represent abstract concepts like 'rainbow' and 'freedom' by analyzing brain activation patterns in different regions of the anterior temporal lobe.