Arnaud Fumal

Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjects.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America August 17, 2006 Ron Kupers, Arnaud Fumal, Alain Maertens De Noordhout et al.

After loss of a particular sensory channel, the deprived cortex can be activated by inputs from other sensory modalities. It is not known whether activation of the rewired cortex evokes subjective experiences characteristic of that cortex or consistent with the rerouted sensory information. In a previous study, blind subjects were trained to perform visual tasks with a tongue display unit, a...