We're thrilled to announce that our new research article, "Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development”, has just been published in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) with @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Matej Hoffman.

Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development - Nature Communications

Children born without a hand show early, widespread changes in brain maps, with body parts shifting across the homunculus. Adaptive behaviours explain individual differences but cannot override this e...

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I’m Tamar Makin, leader of the Plasticity Lab @CBU. As an intro to Bluesky, I asked my team to choose their favourite lab paper. My pick sums up a decade of the lab’s work: John Krakauer @JHU & I argue that one brain area can’t simply take over another, challenging remapping claims: rb.gy/n4dr03

We’re thrilled to share our new research article, "Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping on bioRxiv: rebrand.ly/qbz6nal with @dorothycowie.bsky.social

Had a blast working on this amazing project and the pre-print is now out 🎉! Interested in sensory remapping? We tested congenital limb difference children and adults to investigate how their brains differ and what role compensatory behaviour in childhood has on remapping 🧠 Read more in the thread!

Plasticity Lab@plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re thrilled to share our new research article, "Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping on bioRxiv: rebrand.ly/qbz6nal with @dorothycowie.bsky.social