Leah A. Krubitzer

This study shows that early blind short-tailed opossums can perform reaching and grasping tasks as well as sighted controls, relying heavily on tactile input and showing impaired performance when olfactory input is removed.

This study shows that enriched rearing environments enhance neural plasticity in the somatosensory cortex of early blind animals, leading to more adaptive behavioral and receptive field changes compared to standard rearing.

The paper compares gene expression patterns in the cortex across species using new algorithms, finding varying conservation levels in different brain regions.

This study investigates how early vision loss in opossums affects texture discrimination behavior, showing that early blind animals use tactile inputs more effectively than sighted controls.

The paper simulates how whisker maps in rats and mice self-organize through gene expression gradients and local cell interactions.

This study examines how early blindness affects sensorimotor behavior and sensory reliance in short-tailed opossums, finding increased tactile accuracy but reduced flexibility when whiskers are trimmed.