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Deficits and adaptation of eye-hand coordination during visually-guided reaching movements in people with amblyopia -- Beyond the critical period : acquiring stereopsis in adulthood -- The distributed nature of visual object learning -- Building the brain in the dark : functional and specific crossmodal reorganization in the occipital cortex of blind individuals -- Plasticity and restoration after visual system damage : clinical applications of the residual vision activation theory -- Motor adaptation and proprioceptive recalibration -- Visual plasticity of the adult brain -- Applying plasticity to visual rehabilitation in adulthood -- Visual adaptations of vertebrates that transition between aquatic and terrestrial environments -- Human visual plasticity : lessons from children treated for congenital cataracts -- Living with one eye : plasticity in visual and auditory systems -- Crossmodal plasticity in early blindness.