The Right Hemisphere Planum Temporale Supports Enhanced Visual Motion Detection Ability in Deaf People: Evidence from Cortical Thickness

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<div>Partial correlation between mean cortical thickness in the left (a) and right (b) PTR and visual motion detection thresholds in deaf people after controlling for age. In the right PTR but not in the left, cortical thickness correlated with visual motion detection thresholds.</div>

Neural Plasticity

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Figure 1: The Right Hemisphere Planum Temporale Supports Enhanced Visual Motion Detection Ability in Deaf People: Evidence from Cortical Thickness 