{"id":13046,"date":"2026-07-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=13046"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:40:58","slug":"new-publication-in-brain-do-non-language-regions-become-language-regions-the-case-of-deprived-sensory-cortices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/new-publication-in-brain-do-non-language-regions-become-language-regions-the-case-of-deprived-sensory-cortices\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Brain: Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui and colleagues have published \u201cDo non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices\u201d in Brain (July 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">In people born blind or deaf, the unused visual or auditory cortex becomes active during language tasks, and many studies have taken this as a sign that these regions take on language processing. This study tests that claim with congenitally blind and deaf participants, sign-language-using children of deaf parents, and sighted and hearing controls, separating language processing from the sensory and general task demands that accompany it. The answer bears on a central question in brain plasticity: whether a brain region can change its specialization.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Ay\u015fe Bet\u00fcl Varol, Tamer Gezici, \u015eehmus Kurt, Yasemin G\u00fc\u00e7l\u00fct\u00fcrk, Mohini Verma, <strong>Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/brain\/awag242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui and colleagues have published \u201cDo non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices\u201d in Brain (July 2026). In people born blind or deaf, the unused visual or auditory cortex becomes active during language tasks, and many studies have taken this as a sign that these regions take on language\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13208,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions\/13208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}