Early deafness leads to re-shaping of global functional connectivity beyond the auditory cortex
Early sensory deprivation such as blindness or deafness shapes brain development in multiple ways. While it is established that deprived brain areas start to be engaged in the processing of stimuli from the remaining modalities and in high-level cognitive tasks, some reports have also suggested the possibility of structural and functional changes in non-deprived brain areas. We compared resting-state functional network organization of the brain in early-deaf adults and hearing controls by examining global network segregation and integration. Relative to hearing controls, deaf adults exhibited an altered modular organization, with regions of the salience network coupled with the fronto-parietal network. They showed weaker connections between auditory and somatomotor regions, stronger coupling between the fronto-parietal network and several other large-scale networks (visual, memory, cingulo-opercular and somatomotor), and an enlargement of the default mode network. Their overall functional segregation of brain networks was also lower. Our findings suggest that brain plasticity in deaf adults is not limited to changes in auditory cortex but additionally alters the coupling between other large-scale networks. These widespread functional connectivity changes may provide a mechanism for the superior behavioral performance of the deaf in visual and attentional tasks.
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