Ankeeta Sharma1,
S. Senthil Kumaran1, Rohit Saxena2, Garima Shukla3,
Vishnu Sreenivas4, Naranamangalam R. Jagannathan1
1Department
of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 2Department
of R.P.Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 3Department of Neurology, All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 4Department
of Bio-Statistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi,
India
Alteration in the visual and neural pathway persistence in early and late blind subjects during the cognitive processes would help in understanding the learning abilities of blind subjects and their training requirements. This can be assistance in their quality of life and adaptability to the surroundings. Functional imaging of congenital and late blind patients showed a cross-modal recruitment of the occipital cortex during the realization perceptual tasks such as Braille reading, tactile perception and spatial exploration.