Abstract
Early deaf individuals show enhanced performance at some visual tasks, including the processing of visual motion. Deaf individuals’ auditory and association cortices have been shown to respond to visual motion, however, it is unclear how these responses relate to their enhanced motion processing ability. Here I will present data from two recent studies, where we examined deaf and hearing participants’ fMRI and EEG responses frequency-tagged to the presentation of directional motion. Our results suggest the intriguing possibility that deaf participants’ increased direction-selective motion responses in the right STS region of could potentially support their behavioral advantage reported in previous studies.