Ella Striem-Amit
Postdoctoral research fellow
Psychology Department, Harvard University
Psychology Department, Harvard University
I am interested in the balance between innate brain organization and experience-dependent plasticity. My primary research focuses on studying adults with specific sensory deprivation (blind, deaf or dysplasic, born without hands) to learn how selective sensory experiences shape their sensory, motor and cognitive systems. These models serve to assess the roles of critical developmental periods, compensatory cross-modal plasticity and sensory-independent (a-modal) processes in the human brain.