Developmental Plasticity in the Nonhuman Primate Visual Cortex

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1002051

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A phenomenon that has puzzled many for a number of years is why damage to the visual brain during infancy has far less of an impact on visual capacity than the same lesion suffered later in life. This project hopes to uncover this mystery and see how brain 'wiring' is altered to compensate.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $464,417.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

brain lesion | brain pathways | cortical plasticity | cortical reorganisation | extrastriate | primate | traumatic brain injury (TBI) | vision loss | visual cortex | visual impairment

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