The author is at the Center for Imaging Neuroscience, Universitäts-Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Neurology, Building S10, Martinistr 52, Hamburg, D-20246, Germany. buechel@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Sighted people devote much their cortex to visual processing, but in the blind, 'visual' areas are recruited for other senses. A paper in this issue now reports that V1 in the blind is also activated by a verbal memory task, without any sensory input.
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