Functional and structural brain connectivity in congenital deafness

Several studies have been carried out to verify neural plasticity and the language process in deaf individuals. However, further investigations regarding intrinsic brain organization on functional structural networks derived from congenital deafness are still an open question. The objective of this study was investigate main differences manifested congenitally individuals, concerning resting-state patterns, white matter structuring. Functional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging modalities were acquired 18 individuals age–sex-matched hearing controls. Compared group, presented higher connectivity among posterior cingulate cortex node default mode network with visual motor networks, lower between salience prominence changes right hemisphere, mostly frontoparietal temporal lobes. In terms connectivity, we found mainly occipital parietal lobes, involving both classical sign support regions as well concentrated for focus activity, attention, cognitive filtering. Our findings demonstrated that who learned developed significant reorganization, which provides prominent large-scale associated attention decision-making, environmental monitoring based movement objects,