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  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

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  • Ventral occipital temporal cortex (VOTC) develops visual category selectivity early in infancy.
  • Congenitally blind individuals show VOTC category selectivity for non-visual stimuli (auditory, haptic).
  • The impact of restored vision on VOTC visual responses in congenital blindness is unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if VOTC exhibits category-selective visual responses after sight restoration in individuals with congenital blindness.
  • To test the hypothesis that cross-modal VOTC activation due to congenital blindness interferes with visual processing post-sight recovery.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study.
  • Participants: Adults with restored sight after transient congenital blindness (cataracts) and normally sighted controls.
  • Tasks: Visual (movies of objects, faces, scenes, body parts) and auditory (corresponding sounds) stimuli presented.

Main Results:

  • Reduced face selectivity in the ventral occipital temporal cortex (VOTC) of individuals with restored sight compared to controls.
  • A double dissociation was observed: sight-recovery individuals decoded visual categories from auditory representations, while controls decoded auditory from visual representations.
  • These findings suggest altered neural mechanisms for category representation after congenital blindness and sight restoration.

Conclusions:

  • Restored vision in individuals with a history of congenital blindness is associated with reduced face selectivity in the VOTC.
  • Potential deficits in central visual field representation in lower-tier visual areas may contribute to reduced face selectivity.
  • Cross-modal activity in higher-order visual areas might facilitate, rather than hinder, visual functional recovery.