Research Article
Crossmodal Recruitment of the Ventral Visual Stream in Congenital Blindness
Table 1
Activation clusters for “shapes versus rest” in blind and sighted subjects.
| Anatomical area of activation | BA | Congenitally blind | Sighted controls | Talairach coordinates | Talairach coordinates | | | | | | | | |
| Occipital cortex | | | | | | | | | | Cuneus | 18 | −26 | −75 | 15 | 8.12 | | | | | | 12 | −85 | 19 | 6.13 | | | | | Lingual gyrus | 17 | −8 | −87 | 4 | 5.84 | | | | | | 8 | −85 | 3 | 4.38 | | | | | Inferior occipital gyrus | 19 | −48 | −80 | −3 | 4.02 | | | | | | 34 | −76 | −8 | 4.78 | | | | | Middle occipital gyrus | 19 | −36 | −85 | 6 | 4.71 | | | | | 37 | 53 | −61 | −9 | 6.36 | | | | | Superior occipital gyrus | 19 | 36 | −73 | 24 | 4.54 | | | | | Temporal cortex | | | | | | | | | | Fusiform gyrus | 19 | −36 | −74 | −10 | 3.48 | | | | | | 38 | −64 | −5 | 5.76 | | | | | Inferior temporal gyrus (LOtv) | 19 | −51 | −66 | −2 | 4.60 | | | | | 37/20 | 55 | −53 | −4 | 5.36 | 51 | −52 | −7 | 4.67 | Middle temporal gyrus | 37 | −50 | −60 | 0 | 5.41 | −55 | −51 | −4 | 5.43 | | 53 | −62 | 0 | 4.59 | | | | | Superior temporal gyrus | 22 | | | | | −57 | 4 | 2 | 6.29 | | | | | | 55 | 10 | 3 | 8.49 | Parietal Cortex | | | | | | | | | | Precuneus | 31/7 | −26 | −75 | 15 | 8.12 | −10 | −64 | 44 | 5.63 | 19/7 | 26 | −70 | 35 | 7.57 | 12 | −62 | 49 | 7.11 | Inferior parietal lobule | 40 | −46 | −39 | 44 | 6.96 | −44 | −31 | 49 | 9.73 | | 42 | −31 | 44 | 5.92 | 46 | −33 | 44 | 8.72 | Superior parietal lobule | 7 | −30 | −54 | 51 | 6.82 | −20 | −53 | 58 | 5.75 | | 30 | −54 | 52 | 6.50 | 32 | −52 | 49 | 6.82 | Postcentral gyrus | 2 | −53 | −25 | 40 | 5.65 | −50 | −25 | 44 | 9.49 | 3/2 | 59 | −20 | 34 | 5.73 | 51 | −28 | 53 | 9.61 | Prefrontal and frontal cortices | | | | | | | | | | Precentral gyrus | 6/44 | −61 | 0 | 35 | 4.48 | −50 | 2 | 11 | 6.81 | | 62 | 5 | 29 | 3.73 | 50 | 8 | 9 | 8.09 | Inferior frontal gyrus | 9 | −55 | 5 | 29 | 5.91 | −57 | 5 | 26 | 6.98 | 47/9 | 34 | 17 | −3 | 6.02 | 53 | 9 | 28 | 7.58 | Middle frontal gyrus | 6 | −26 | −2 | 46 | 4.87 | −38 | −3 | 54 | 5.87 | | 30 | −1 | 48 | 6.37 | 40 | 2 | 50 | 7.00 | Medial frontal gyrus | 6 | | | | | −2 | −1 | 50 | 6.63 | | | | | | 4 | 1 | 50 | 6.52 | Superior frontal gyrus | 6 | | | | | −18 | 5 | 62 | 4.33 | | | | | | 18 | 5 | 62 | 5.08 | Cingulate and Insular cortices | | | | | | | | | | Cingulate gyrus | 32 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 6.31 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 8.53 | Insula | 13 | −40 | 5 | 13 | 4.76 | −34 | 14 | 1 | 8.28 | | 38 | 3 | 15 | 5.43 | 34 | 21 | 3 | 7.55 | Cerebellum | | −32 | −74 | −22 | 5.36 | −28 | −67 | −15 | 8.16 | | 4 | −73 | −13 | 4.34 | 28 | −67 | −15 | 6.35 |
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