A nonvisual look at the functional organization of visual cortex.
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.
Peelen
Marius V
MV
Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. mpeelen@princeton.edu
Kastner
Sabine
S
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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