title: A nonvisual look at the functional organization of visual cortex.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Mahon et al. show that the ventral visual cortex of congenitally blind individuals, who have never experienced the visual world, has an object-category organization similar to that found in sighted individuals. Here, we discuss the implications of this finding for our understanding of the "visual" cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. mpeelen@princeton.edu
authors.forename: Marius V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Peelen
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kastner
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
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