Plasticity of Sensory Cortices: From Basic to Clinical Research
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organization and plasticity of the human auditory cortex
Interests: cognition; brain injury; neurorehabilitation; visual neglect; neuroimaging; functional MRI; DSI; resting state fMRI; EEG
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Dear Colleagues,
Sensory cortices tend to comprise an orderly representation of their sensory organ: retinotopic representation in early-stage vision, tonotopic representation in auditory processing, and somatotopic representation in somatosensory areas. Training, altered sensory experiences, and differently placed lesions are known to induce changes in these representations. Investigations into vestibular, olfactive, and gustatory representations can provide insights into the complex mechanisms underlying these functions.
This Special Issue will present the latest studies in this field, from the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying changes in sensory representations to clinical applications, such as sensory prostheses and implants. It will also document short-term and long-term plasticity in health and disease, both in human subjects and in animal models, using behavioral, electrophysiological, fMRI, and anatomical approaches.
We invite submissions discussing the plasticity of sensory cortices. Topics of interest include the following:
- Orderly representations of the sensory periphery;
- Training-induced changes;
- Post-lesional reorganization;
- Post-stroke reorganization of sensory representations;
- Lesion analysis in post-stroke sensory deficits;
- Dementia-related dysfunction in sensory representations;
- Neural underpinnings of sensory hallucinations.
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Clarke
Dr. Sonia Crottaz-Herbette
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tonotopy
- retinotopy
- somatotopy
- vestibular
- olfactory
- gustatory
- training-induced plasticity
- postlesional plasticity
- cochlear implant
- prostheses
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