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DOI: 10.1038/380479a0

Novel Sensations In The Congenitally Blind

Tim Rons
Published 1996 ·

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A report on page 526 of this issue shows that, in blind subjects, the primary visual cortex becomes activated via the neural pathways mediating the sensation of touch. The implications of this finding are many and various.



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