Prevalence of increases in functional connectivity in visual, somatosensory and language areas in congenital blindness

• Main Authors: Lizette eHeine (Author), Mohamed Ali eBahri (Author), Carlo eCavaliere (Author), Andrea eSoddu (Author), Steven eLaureys (Author), Maurice ePtito (Author), ron eKupers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

There is ample evidence that congenitally blind individuals rely more strongly on non-visual information compared to sighted controls when interacting with the outside world. Although brain imaging studies indicate that congenitally blind individuals recruit occipital areas when performing various n...