Plasticity of the primate cerebral cortex

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/491022

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Lesions of the primary visual area (V1) are sufficient to cause blindness, even though there are many other brain areas normally involved in vision. However, when V1 is lesioned very early in life people show some recovery, and may be able to see well enough to perform everyday activities. In order to understand what happens in the brain that allows this preservation of vision, we will study changes in the pathways linking the eyes to the brain, following lesions at different ages.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $497,205.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical virology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cognitive deficits- dysfunction | cortical reorganisation | development | electrophysiology | plasticity | primates | vision-central | visual cortex | visual disorders, blindness | visual impairment

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