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
		𝑥	𝑦	𝑧	𝑡	𝑥	𝑦	𝑧	𝑡
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