The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

For human and non-human primates, vision is one of the most privileged sensory channels
used to interact with the environment. The importance of vision is strongly embedded in the …

While most of the research in blind individuals classically has focused on the compensatory
plastic rearrangements that follow loss of sight, novel behavioral, anatomical and functional …

An investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive
abilities. Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive …

Brain imaging studies describe visual cortex activity in blind people during nonvisual tasks
such as Braille reading, hearing words, or sensory discriminations of tactile or auditory …

The purpose of this study was to study brain plasticity in the visual cortex, in six subjects
totally blind from birth. The protocol we used was the same as that employed in a prior study …

Vision plays a central role in how we represent and interact with the world around us. The
primacy of vision is structurally imbedded in cortical organization as about one-third of the …

Altogether, findings from both behavioural and imaging studies indicate that the brain
functional organization is to a large extent independent from visual experience and able to …

We explored the ability of congenitally totally blind people (who were contrasted with age-,
sex-and education matched blindfolded sighted subjects) to perform tasks which are …

Early onset blindness allows one to investigate how the human brain adapts to sensory
experience in infancy and early childhood. Over the past decade, lesion, functional and …