map expansion

Map expansion, the fourth type of neuroplasticity, entails the flexibility of local brain regions that are dedicated to performing one type of function or storing a particular form of information. The arrangement of these local regions in the cerebral cortex is referred to…

…to be explained specifically by map expansion neuroplasticity (cortical reorganization), in which local brain regions, each dedicated to performing one type of function and reflected in the cerebral cortex as “maps,” can acquire areas of the unused phantom map.