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Abstract #2264

Role of visual cortex during after and before critical developmental period in early blind and late blind: An fMRI study

A Ankeeta1, Senthil Kumaran1, and Rohit Saxena2

1Department of NMR and MRI Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 2Dr. RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Visual cortex is preserved and is performing during non-visual stimuli showing development of specific compensatory mechanisms associated with visual area in blind subjects. Blind people process auditory language stimuli faster than sighted people. Some language functions suggest cortical reorganization in the blind subjects.

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